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I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

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
Men
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Small
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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 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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Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
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There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
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I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
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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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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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I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
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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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Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on 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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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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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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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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Goals determine what your going to be
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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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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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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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They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
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