Wilt Chamberlain Quotes about Basketball

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.

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.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

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

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

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

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

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 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.