Julius Erving Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Respect, Believe

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

  Julius Erving

  Success, Basketball, Spiritual

• Goals determine what you're going to be.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Basketball, Determination

• I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Eye, Men

• Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

• I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Thinking, Appreciate

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Demand

• To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

• It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Long

• 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

  Basketball, Real, Games

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• 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.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Games

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Challenges, Daring To Be Great

• I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• Attitude is altitude.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Attitude

• I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Trying, Conservative

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Games, Careers

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• 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 in.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Champion, Honor

• 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 for me to play.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Wise

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Mom, Home

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Baby, Steps

• 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.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Moving

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Philadelphia, Five

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

• And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Basketball, Eight

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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