Wilt Chamberlain Quotes
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That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
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I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
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Monogamy is the true path to happiness.
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
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I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.
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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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When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.
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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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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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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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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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Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
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They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
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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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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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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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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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They were willing to do anything to stop me.
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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.
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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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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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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
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When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
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Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
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He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
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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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Wilt Chamberlain
- Born: August 21, 1936
- Died: October 12, 1999
- Occupation: Basketball player
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