Julius Erving
Athlete
1950-02-22
Books by Julius Erving
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Quotes by Julius Erving
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In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
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Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
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And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
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I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.
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If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
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In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
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You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.
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You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.
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My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.
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When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
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