Top 60 Allen Iverson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only the strong survive.”

— Allen Iverson

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2. “I’m not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.”

— Allen Iverson

3. “When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.”

— Allen Iverson

4. “When you work hard, good things happen.”

— Allen Iverson

5. “I play every game like it’s my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.”

— Allen Iverson

6. “I don’t put pressure on myself. I just compete.”

— Allen Iverson

7. “You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you’re trying to go.”

— Allen Iverson

8. “Life is short. I’m gonna be happy with mine.”

— Allen Iverson

9. “Mistakes happen. But after a while you’ve got to stop making them happen twice.”

— Allen Iverson

10. “The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.”

— Allen Iverson

11. “I wasn’t a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”

— Allen Iverson

12. “A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot.”

— Allen Iverson

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

— Allen Iverson

14. “I’d rather have more heart than talent any day.”

— Allen Iverson

15. “I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn’t doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could.”

— Allen Iverson

16. “I went through what I went through because God said go through it.”

— Allen Iverson

17. “My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don’t, then believe what you hear and run with that.”

— Allen Iverson

18. “If you’re struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.”

— Allen Iverson

19. “Being an All-Star is everything.”

— Allen Iverson

20. “Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.”

— Allen Iverson

21. “I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I’m not proud of. But it’s only for other people to learn from.”

— Allen Iverson

22. “I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.”

— Allen Iverson

23. “One of the things you have to learn is that you don’t have to have the ball all the time to be effective.”

— Allen Iverson

24. “How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!”

— Allen Iverson

25. “I would rather win than have good sportsmanship.”

— Allen Iverson

26. “I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn’t have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.”

— Allen Iverson

27. “I don’t want to just go to the playoffs, I don’t want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it’s bittersweet.”

— Allen Iverson

28. “It’s unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn’t want to have their child booed. Fans don’t understand our lives and what we go through. They don’t look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.”

— Allen Iverson

29. “In 2001 we didn’t have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.”

— Allen Iverson

30. “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 mean. I’m fortunate; I’m blessed to be in the situation that I’m in right now.”

— Allen Iverson

31. “I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.”

— Allen Iverson

32. “You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.”

— Allen Iverson

33. “I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.”

— Allen Iverson

34. “I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.”

— Allen Iverson

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

— Allen Iverson

36. “My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.”

— Allen Iverson

37. “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.”

— Allen Iverson

38. “When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn’t be in the NBA.”

— Allen Iverson

39. “I’ve always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I’ve played with. Don’t ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you’ll get legit answers.”

— Allen Iverson

40. “I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger!”

— Allen Iverson

41. “People think that I’m some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain’t me.”

— Allen Iverson

42. “If I don’t believe it, then they don’t need me on the court. I’ve just got to believe that in my heart.”

— Allen Iverson

43. “I didn’t know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I’m going to carry this memory to my grave.”

— Allen Iverson

44. “I’m going to always be a Sixer til I die.”

— Allen Iverson

45. “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.”

— Allen Iverson

46. “Please don’t try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.”

— Allen Iverson

47. “We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn’t have happened.”

— Allen Iverson

48. “I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.”

— Allen Iverson

49. “I don’t care. I feel like if we don’t make a trade, we have to get it done with what we’ve got.”

— Allen Iverson

50. “I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I’ve come a long way.”

— Allen Iverson