Julius Erving Quotes

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• To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
• And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up…
• I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
• Attitude is altitude.
• I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
• I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be…
• I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.
• It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
• When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
• The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
• I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport…
• I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
• I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.
• I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
• If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.
• If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
• Many people think sports are totally physical, that you don't have to think, everything is done for you and you're catered to, I found that…

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