“The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.”
"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
"Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them."
- Julius Erving
Determination
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education