Erving Quotes
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Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
— Julius Erving
Goals determine what you're going to be.
— Julius Erving
When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
— Julius Erving
To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
— Julius Erving
I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.
— Julius Erving
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
— Erving Goffman
I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.
— Julius Erving
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
— Julius Erving
I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
— Julius Erving
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
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify
— Erving Goffman
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
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
— Erving Goffman
LA Clippers should come to Louisville
— Julius Erving
Intuition knows what the mind can't see yet.
— Maria Erving
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.
— Maria Erving
Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.
— Erving Goffman
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
— Erving Goffman
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
— Julius Erving
And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
— Julius Erving
As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.
— Julius Erving
I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
— Julius Erving
The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
— Julius Erving
I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
— Julius Erving
I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.
— Julius Erving
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
— Erving Goffman
In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
— Julius Erving
Goals determine what your going to be
— Julius Erving
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
— Julius Erving
They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.
— Julius Erving
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
— Julius Erving
We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us.
— Erving Goffman
Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.
— Erving Polster
I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
— Julius Erving
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.
— Julius Erving
If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.
— Julius Erving
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
— Erving Goffman
Goals determine what you are going to be
— Julius Erving
The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.
— Julius Erving
The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.
— Julius Erving
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
— Julius Erving
Attitude is altitude.
— Julius Erving
It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
— Julius Erving
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
— Julius Erving
Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick.
— Erving Polster
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
— Julius Erving
To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
— Julius Erving
You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.
— Julius Erving
I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
— Julius Erving
The world, in truth, is a wedding.
— Erving Goffman