American - Athlete | June 7, 1975 -
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?
Allen Iverson
FamilyManI AmMeBlessedNegative
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.
PracticeMeCareerWorstRightKid
All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.
TattoosGetWantedAfford
Detroit was a bad situation for me.
MeBadSituationDetroit
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.
PositiveHopeManPeopleNegative
My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.
MeMomAlwaysAnythingWantedCould
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.
FootballSchoolMeBasketballHigh
I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.
RegretBackAnythingTake
Everybody is their own person.
PersonOwnEverybody
You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
PoliceThinkYouPolice OfficersNow
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?
HappyMeYouKnowMeanBig
I am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.
MyselfI AmSickDoingKeepGoing
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