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I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

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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Plug
Plugs
Exit
Pulled
Basketball
Thought
Right

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I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
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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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They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
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Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
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I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
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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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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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When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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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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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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