Julius Erving Quotes

"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Age, Basketball)

"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Control, Want)

"In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Life, Being, Teenage, Universe, World, Years)

"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Buying, Now)

"Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Age, Time, Right)

"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Being, World)

"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."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Moments, Want)

"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Business, First)

"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."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Life, People, Books, Fiction, Want)

"They are taking steps, but they are baby steps."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Baby)

"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Games)

"When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight."
- Julius Erving

"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."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Family, Life, Career, Envy, Friends, Old, Reputation, World, Years)

"When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think."
- Julius Erving

"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Crowds, Play, Potential)

"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."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Effort, Teachers)

"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
(Related: Family, Life, Sports, Experience, Mind, Want)

"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
(Related: Beginning, First)

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Body, End)

"If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Cause, Competition, Effect, Entertainment, Result, Today, Value)

"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
(Related: Home, Basketball, Being, Influence, Learning)

"I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Time, Thought, Right)

"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
(Related: Sports, Time, Life)

"I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Eyes, Man)

"I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Time)

"I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Life, Mom, Home, Influence)

"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Conservative, Court, Pretty)

"Goals determine what you're going to be."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Goals)

"Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain."
- Julius Erving

"Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Being, Depression)

"And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Old, Years)

"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
(Related: Age, Time, Basketball, Difficulty, First)

"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Popularity, Respect)