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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Wilt Chamberlain
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Wilt Chamberlain
Age: 63 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 21
Died: 1999
Died: October 12
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Wilton Norman Chamberlain
Wilt the Stilt
The Big Dipper
Mr 100
The Record Book
Dippy
The Load
George Marcus
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More quotes by Wilt Chamberlain
I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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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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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 believe that good things come to those who work.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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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.
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People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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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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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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It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
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Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
Wilt Chamberlain
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
Wilt Chamberlain
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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.
Wilt Chamberlain
A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
Wilt Chamberlain
