Wilt Chamberlain Quotes
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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.
It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
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.
Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
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.
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.
The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
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.
I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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.
I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
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.
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.
I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.