Wilt Chamberlain Quotes

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• It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Believe, Waiting, Good Things

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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• Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Inspirational, Want, Habit

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, Men

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Team, Men

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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

  Leadership, Sports, Hard Work

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• Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

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• We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Success, Basketball, Sports

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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• People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, People

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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

  Basketball, Sports, Life And Love

  Wilt Chamberlain, David Shaw (1973). “Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door”

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Dream, Play

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• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Straight Up, Ifs

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• When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Selfish, Views

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stronger, Villain, Bigger

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Stars, Player, Games

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Dog, Kids, Ease

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• The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Men

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• You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Stars, Kids

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• I believe that good things come to those who work.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Motivational, Believe, I Believe

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Growing Up, Childhood, Way

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Thinking, Different, Way

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• Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Player, Incredibles

  "Harlem Globetrotters Star Meadowlark Lemon Dies at 83" by the Associated Press, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 28, 2015.

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• Monogamy is the true path to happiness.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Path, Monogamy

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• But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sex, Nba

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Life Changing, Would Be, Six

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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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Eight, Boston

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