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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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Julius Erving
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
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I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
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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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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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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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When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
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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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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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The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
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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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Goals determine what you are going to be
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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
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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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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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As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
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When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.
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