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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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Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.
Julius Erving
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
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.
Julius Erving
I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
Julius Erving
If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.
Julius Erving
As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
Julius Erving
When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
Julius Erving
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
Julius Erving
It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
Attitude is altitude.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
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.
Julius Erving
