97 Quotes by Julius Erving

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.

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

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

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

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

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.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.