97 Quotes by Julius Erving

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

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

LA Clippers should come to Louisville

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.