Influences
- Glenn "Doc" Rivers got his nickname while at Marquette University for the "Dr. J" t-shirt he often wore to basketball practice.
- Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers was named after Erving.
- Erving was U.S. President Barack Obama's childhood sports hero; as a child, he had his posters in his room.
- Erving's nickname "Dr. J" influenced the rapper Dr. Dre's name
- Erving helped influence Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, and many other legends. Jordan wore his Converse basketball shoes during the 1982 NCAA Finals, where he made a winning shot.
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Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at what is inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)