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To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
Julius Erving
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Julius Erving
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
Actor
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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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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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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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
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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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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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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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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 liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
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If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.
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When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
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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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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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They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
Julius Erving
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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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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I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
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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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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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