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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.
Julius Erving
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Julius Erving
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
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Basketball Player
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Doctor J
Julius Winfield Erving II
Dr. J
The Doctor
J. W. Erving
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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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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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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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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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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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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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They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
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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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I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
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I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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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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