Julius Erving Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

• 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

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

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

• 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 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.

• 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 to be so far removed from the truth that it's almost a joke. The ones who become stars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

• And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Years

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

• 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

  Basketball, Sports, Mind

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

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