Wilt Chamberlain Quotes
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Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
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Monogamy is the true path to happiness.
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It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.
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Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
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I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.
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I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
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This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
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They were willing to do anything to stop me.
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A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
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I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
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All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.
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Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special.
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My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.
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That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
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I believe that good things come to those who work.