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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Julius Erving

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Julius Erving
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
Actor
Basketball Player
Businessman
Manhattan borough
New York City
Doctor J
Julius Winfield Erving II
Dr. J
The Doctor
J. W. Erving
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Continued
Basketball
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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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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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Goals determine what your going to be
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I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
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One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
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When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.
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I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.
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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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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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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
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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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One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
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But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
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Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
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As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
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