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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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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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As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
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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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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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The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
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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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I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
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Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.
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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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Goals determine what you are going to be
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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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You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.
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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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I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
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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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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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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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