Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlainwas an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association; he played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds with the Lakers. He played the center position and is widely considered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth21 August 1936
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Wilt Chamberlain quotes about
Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.
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.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
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.
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.
Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
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.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
They were willing to do anything to stop me.
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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.