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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Wilt Chamberlain
Age: 63 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 21
Died: 1999
Died: October 12
Actor
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Philadelphia
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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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Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
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If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.
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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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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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That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
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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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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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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 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 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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People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
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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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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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I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
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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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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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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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