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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 may not know everything about physical talent or anything like that, but I have a sharp mind when it comes to that look: being able to look into somebody's eyes to tell if they are going to be in the foxhole with you tonight, or if they are not.

I don't watch college basketball.

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 am sick of defending myself, and I am not going to keep on doing it.

You think I can be the MVP without practicing?

I wasn't afraid to be who I am. I didn't think anything was wrong with it.

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

Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn't make him a good guy.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'

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 want to thank coach Thompson... for saving my life. For giving me the opportunity.

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.

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

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 can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

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

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

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

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 went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

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.

Everybody is their own person.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

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

I want to play basketball so bad.

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.

You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.