Julius Erving Quotes

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.

I was never the best player in the teams I played for. I always needed time for development.

People see the scoring, and oftentimes, that's all they think about with me, but I try to get better at all aspects my the game and become a better basketball player.

I got my ball-handling skills naturally. I know I can get better, and I will get better, but it's something I was born with.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.