Wilt Chamberlain Famous Quotes & Sayings
56 Wilt Chamberlain Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.— Wilt Chamberlain
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.— Wilt Chamberlain
The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.— Gene Shue
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.— Wilt Chamberlain
You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.— Brendan I. Koerner
Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.— Red Auerbach
That's my tag, whether I like it or not.— Wilt Chamberlain
I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.— Wilt Chamberlain
I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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.— Wilt Chamberlain
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
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
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.— Wilt Chamberlain
He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'— Tom Heinsohn
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.— Rick Wise
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.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
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
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
I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.— Wilt Chamberlain
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?— Wilt Chamberlain
If D1 was a just distribution, and people voluntarily moved from it to D2, transferring parts of their shares they were given under D1 (what was it for if not to do something with?), isn't D2 also just? If the people were entitled to dispose of the resources to which they were entitled (under D1), didn't this include their being entitled to give it to, or exchange it with, Wilt Chamberlain? Can anyone else complain on grounds of justice? Each other person already has his legitimate share under D1. Under D1, there is nothing that anyone has that anyone else has a claim of justice against. After someone transfers something to Wilt Chamberlain, third parties still have their legitimate shares; their shares are not changed. By what process could such a transfer among two persons give rise to a legitimate claim of distributive justice on a portion of what was transferred, by a third party who had no claim of justice on any holding of the others before the transfer?— Robert Nozick
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
Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.— John Salley
I believe that good tjings come to those who work.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.— Wilt Chamberlain
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.— Wilt Chamberlain
I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.— Wilt Chamberlain
I believe that good things come to those who work.— Wilt Chamberlain
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.— Shaquille O'Neal
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.— Wilt Chamberlain
When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college. Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.— Wilt Chamberlain
We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
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
Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was sixty years old after his knees had survived a lifetime of basketball.— Christopher McDougall
Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.— Chuck Klosterman
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.— Dick Schaap
Nobody roots for Goliath.— Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.— Dennis Rodman
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
Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.— Wilt Chamberlain
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.— Wilt Chamberlain
Monogamy is the true path to happiness.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.— Wilt Chamberlain
They were willing to do anything to stop me.— Wilt Chamberlain
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
