A biography for Allen Iversonhasn’t been written yet.
“Detroit was a bad situation for me.”
“At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.”
“This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.”
“I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'”
“I want to thank coach Thompson... for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.”
“I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.”
“I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.”
“I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.”
“I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.”
“I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.”
“You think I can be the MVP without practicing?”
“I didn't do this by myself, man. It was so many people, so many fans that came in there and cheered for me, night in and night out.”
“Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.”
“I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.”
“I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.”
“All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.”
“I just feel this is my planet.”
“I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.”
“My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.”
“Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.”