Julius Erving Quotes

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

We have to take the good with the bad.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

Every country has it trade offs.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

All advantages are attended with disadvantages.

I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.