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.

I'm a father; I'm a friend. I think I've got the biggest heart in the world. A lot of times, that's not a good thing. It's a gift and a curse.

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 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.

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 wanted my fans and my family and my friends to be proud of me.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.

I'm the biggest Westbrook fan, I think, there is. You know what I mean? Because he reminds me so much of myself as far as his heart and laying it on the line night in and night out. Just a guy that's going to bring it every single night.

LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

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.

If you're from Virginia, then you know some white people from Poquoson don't like black people.

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.

My dream was bigger than anything else. My fight and me wanting to fulfill what I wanted to be in life. That was enough to keep me strong enough to endure anything.

I just feel this is my planet.

I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.

You don't want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don't want to hear about that.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.

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.'

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.