31 Wilt Chamberlain Quotes On 100 Points, Hard Work, Basketball & Life

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Wilt Chamberlain was a legendary professional basketball player who played in the NBA from 1959 to 1973 with the Philadelphia Warriors (76ers) and Los Angeles Lakers.

He is known as one of the greatest and most dominant basketball players of all time.

Wilt is most known for scoring 100 points in a single game, the highest-scoring game by one player in NBA history. He also holds the record for the highest scoring average in a season (50.4 points per game) and most rebounds in a single game (55).

He led the NBA in rebounding for 11 seasons and averaged over 22 rebounds per game for his career.

Besides his individual records, Chamberlain won two NBA championships during his career. One with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1967 and one with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972.

Chamberlain was known for his incredible size and athleticism. Standing at 7'1", he possessed a unique combination of strength and agility which allowed him to dominate opponents.

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Famous Wilt Chamberlain Quotes About His 100 Point Game

1. "They were willing to do anything to stop me."

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

3. "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."

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

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

6. "It was a challenge to my teammates to help me."

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

8. "Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball."

9. "He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points."

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Wilt Quotes On Work Ethic

10. "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."

11. "It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work."

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

13. "Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing."

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Wilt Chamberlain Basketball Quotes

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

15. "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."

16. "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."

17. "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."

18. "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."

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Wilt Quotes About Confidence

19. "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."

20. "People say my ego is grand. I think it’s in proportion to me."

21. "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."

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Quotes From Wilt About Life

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

23. "If I were given a change of life, I’d like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer."

24. "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."

25. "Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath."

26. "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."

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

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