Wilt Chamberlain Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

• 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

• 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

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

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Stars, Kids

• 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

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• 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

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

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Men

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

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, People

• 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

• 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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Jobs, 80s And 90s

• It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Challenges, Teammate

• 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.

• He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Faults, Quarters

• That's my tag, whether I like it or not.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Tag

• I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Teammate, Want

• 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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Giving Up, Clever

• I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Games, Careers

• They were willing to do anything to stop me.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Willing

• We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Numbers, Fascinated

• It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Balls, Way

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

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Selfish, Views

• 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.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Pain, Doctors

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