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To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.

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
Innovator
Innovators
Worried
Mistakes
Mistake
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The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
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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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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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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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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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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 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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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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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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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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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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They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
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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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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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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
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I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
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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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