#w

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

#beginning #felt #first #found #game

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

#doing #enjoyed #enough #fed #game

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. ↗

— Julius Erving

#body #comes #end #short #up

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better. ↗

— Julius Erving

#better #could #felt #i #like

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

#effort #else #faced #find #going

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

#adult life #began #biographies #books #fiction

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

— Julius Erving

#great #need #supposed #win

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. ↗

— Julius Erving

#ball #daylight #handling #i #i always

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. ↗

— James H. Boren

#ground #hard #his #keeps #leader

None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own. ↗

— Anita Borg

#devices #just #keep #lives #many