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Wilt Chamberlain
Age: 63 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 21
Died: 1999
Died: October 12
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
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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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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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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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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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They were willing to do anything to stop me.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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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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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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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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Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.
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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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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.
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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 get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
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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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