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

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"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

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"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