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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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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Basketball
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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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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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Goals determine what you are going to be
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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
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I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
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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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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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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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If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.
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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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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 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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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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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
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I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
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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 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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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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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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