Allen Iverson Quotes

We're sitting in here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen, we're talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, we talking about practice. Not a game. Not, not... Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game, but we're talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that?.. And we talking about practice. I know I supposed to be there. I know I'm supposed to lead by example... I know that... And I'm not... I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I do. I honestly do... But we're talking about practice man. What are we talking about? Practice? We're talking about practice, man.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

If I'm not asleep, it's probably all basketball.

At the end of the day, you've got a job to do, and that's playing football.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to get a hit.

I don't do anything else but play basketball.

Sometimes things don't come easy, and golf isn't an easy game.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

We have to play football, not concentrate on other things.

I'm a student of the game.

I am a student of the game.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.