A biography for Allen Iversonhasn’t been written yet.
“When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.”
“That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.”
“I've accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids' life and their future. I'm just happy. I'm just blessed. So anything that I'm not awarded doesn't matter because I've been rewarded enough in this lifetime.”
“Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.”
“I have no regrets on anything. People ask me all the time, 'Do I have any regrets?' I don't have any. If I could back and do it all over, would I change anything? No.”
“You can hide from the devil, but he'll always find you.”
“As far as how I expressed 'practice, practice, practice' over and over again, I wouldn't take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.”
“I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.”
“Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'”
“I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.”
“It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.”
“Any one of my shoes that I had, you knew that, night in, night out, I gave my teammates and my fans everything that I had.”
“I wasn't a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad happy, then that would make me happy, you know what I mean?”
“My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.”
“So many people supported me and believed in me. They made it so easy for me to believe in myself, because I didn't want to let them down.”
“I don't have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That's the way it's supposed to be, man.”
“If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.”
“I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.”
“I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.”
“I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.”