"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."

"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."

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

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

"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."