Julius Erving Quotes

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[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
David Halberstam (Everything They Had: Sports Writing)
Being a professional,” Julius Erving once said, “is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.
Daniel H. Pink (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us)
Goals determine what you're going to be.
J. Julius Erving
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
Julius Erving
I demand more from myself than anybody else could possibly expect of me.
Julius Erving
The ABA was like basketball’s Wild West, and Julius Erving, George Gervin, James Silas and all the other ABA stars were the gunfighters. They are men of legend known to millions, but whose actual deeds were seen by few.
Terry Pluto (Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association)
What Julius Erving said to me all those years ago still applied here. “Do you know anybody who is truly successful, at the top of their profession, who’s really, really great and doesn’t have a major flaw in their personality?” Touché. That remains an accurate statement.
Jim Gray (Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard)
Because sports and mythology often intertwine, the Game 6 narrative has often been one that evokes the best of a cheesy feel-good Hollywood production. Not only did Johnson take the jump ball, he won it, dribbled down the court, did a 360-degree midair flip and dunked over Julius Erving—blindfolded while eating a slice of cheesecake. Not quite.
Jeff Pearlman (Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s)
Being a professional,” Julius Erving once said, “is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.”16
Daniel H. Pink (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us)
I am an American man whose journey has been blessed by the great gifts that America offers—wealth, fame, championships, awards—and also scoured by the tragedies that are a part of the human experience. I have lost too many loved ones. I ask for no pity; I only want to relate what I have felt and seen. I have hurt too many people. For that I ask forgiveness. An American life, after all, is the sum of its parts, the successes and the failings, and mine has been rich with both.
Julius Erving (Dr. J: The Autobiography)