This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

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

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.

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

Personally I just want to win a championship.

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.

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.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

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.

Being an All-Star is everything.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

All I ever wanted to do was wear Jordans. I think there was only one or two pair I never had.

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

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.

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.

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.

Coming into the league, if I would've had money, then obviously I would've had more tattoos.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

Doing this for so long, I realize that the media - you have a boss. And your boss wants you to provide the best material that you can. And he might put pressure on you to do it a way that you feel is unconstitutional. You might not like it. But you still gotta feed your family.

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.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

Everybody is their own person.

Everybody talks about that one when they first meet me. 'Man, I still remember the play you shook Jordan.' Everybody gonna always remember it because it was Jordan.

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That's just a great feeling.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can't dress no grown man.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't watch college basketball.

I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

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

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

I got a lot of love for NBC, Tom Brokaw. He did a lot for me, and I appreciate him, and I owe a lot to him for that.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

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.

I just feel this is my planet.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

I knew I was gonna be the number one pick, but I didn't know.