It's a soundbite you've heard for over 18 years now, usually on the TSN Top 10 lists.
Allen Iverson's legendary answer of firing back at a reporter in a sarcastic manner is a clip that'll never reach its expiry date in the sports world.
While some accused Iverson of being drunk and lashing out during the clip, it was later revealed that the ultra-talented A.I. was still recovering from the loss of his best friend, Rahsaan Langeford, who was shot and killed seven months before the rant.
"Nobody looks at the whole comment Allen made," ESPN radio contributor Scoop Jackson says in the documentary "Iverson." "He was talking about his boy dying ... [The media] would not play that full track."
Iverson dove into his behaviour that day.
"I'm upset for one reason: 'Cause I'm in here. I lost. I lost my best friend. I lost him, and I lost this year. Everything is just going downhill for me, as far as just that. You know, as far as my life. And then I'm dealing with this. ... My best friend is dead. Dead. And we lost. And this is what I have to go through for the rest of the summer until the season is all over again."
One of the best stories to come from the piece? It involves Iverson at practice, of course. Iverson's work ethic was often questioned, as the star point guard often expressed his lack of desire to practice hard, whether it was in the gym or weight room.
In The Athletic article, another classic Iverson story centred around "practice." emerged. He left a live scrimmage with all his teammates to go eat Taco Bell down the hall inside the bowels of the Sixers' arena. Let the author of 'Only the Strong Survive,' Larry Platt, tell the story.
"There [was] a moment where he disappears from practice because his guy Gary Moore had Taco Bell outside in the little hallway [at the practice facility]," Platt explained to Hoffman.
"Allen goes out, downs a few burritos, and then comes running back in and rejoins the scrimmage."
Allen Iverson, a big taco bell guy, just like the rest of us. Normal dude, right?
"There was a reason we took him [to Taco Bell] when they would do the "Fan Day" (events), where they would stick players in different parts of the city," said 76ers sideline reporter, Dei Lynam.
We all know we should always be going balls to the wall at practice, but sometimes, you just gotta take a break and munch down some burritos.
And if you were as talented and galvanizing as Allen Iverson was, you could get away with it without the team forcing you to do wind sprints after.
