Allen Iverson

“If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.”

“We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.”

“I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.”

“I'm just a regular 24/7 dad now.”

“I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.”

“Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.”

“LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.”

“I surround myself with people who make me laugh.”

“There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.”

“I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.”

“When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.”

“I don't really care too much about what people who don't care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.”

“Don't nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.”

“I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.”

“My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.”

“Me and my family are straight. I am blessed. I am alive, man, and I am healthy, and that is the only thing that matters. Me and my family, everybody else, it really doesn't matter because why do you care about somebody talking negative about you if they don't know you?”

“I want to play basketball so bad.”

“I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.”

“At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.”

“Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.”