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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.

Wilt Chamberlain

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Wilt Chamberlain
Age: 63 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 21
Died: 1999
Died: October 12
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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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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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Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
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I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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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 get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.
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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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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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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 willing to do anything to stop me.
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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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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.
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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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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 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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People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
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