Occupation: Basketball Player Birth: August 21, 1936 Death: October 12, 1999
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. T….
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?.
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great..
It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work..
People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me..
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish..
Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball..
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath..
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..
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 cou….
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen..
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 wa….
If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer..
A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping..
Monogamy is the true path to happiness..
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 ….
I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way..
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..
Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing..
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….