Julius Erving Quotes

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren't going your way.

I try to let my highs not be too high and my lows not be too low. And I do that just because I try to control my emotions.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

You can feel up, you can feel down, and you have to keep your emotions kind of somewhere to be focused on the next ball.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

You're going to have people that are high on you one day and low on you the next. For me, it's just to stay levelheaded and stay working.

I never get too over-confident, or too down. I just go with the flow.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.