Wilt Chamberlain Quotes - Page 2

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.

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

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.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

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

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