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Julius Erving

"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."

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"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."

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"I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat."

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"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."

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"Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be."

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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

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"I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame."

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"Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all."

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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."

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"Control or be controlled are the choices that will make life different."

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"And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it."
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"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."
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"Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better."
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"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about."
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