“Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.”
"I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play."
- Julius Erving
Belief in Self
"Goals determine what you’re going to be"
- Julius Erving
Aspirations
"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
- Julius Erving
Health
"If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end."
- Julius Erving
Health
"The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education."
- Julius Erving
Education
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination