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Wilt Chamberlain Quotes

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

Wilt Chamberlain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 21, 1936 - October 12, 1999

Topics

Stars Color You Understand Kid Days

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

John F. Kennedy

Work Good Walk I Can Pay

We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.

Food Kind Natural Going Well Market

There are extraordinary positives and advantages to Facebook and social media and things that genuinely do bring us together. With that comes the horrible negatives of it, but I don't think social media is going anywhere.

Together Social Media Think Media

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

Mother Best Day Mom Sister Limits

I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.

Matter Always Firefighter

I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry would be an example. I kind of see Guy Clark and Larry McMurtry in the same wave.

Wave Said Kind Craft See Without

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

Happy Be Happy Book Trying Creating

My mother had to stop me reading to make me go and get some fresh air. I used to get so annoyed. She actually had to sit on my book because, otherwise, I would find it.

Mother Me Book Reading Find Stop

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

Love Hate People Me Think You

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

Opportunity Me Door Night Ego You

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Education Focus Better Attention Pay

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.

Life Visual Unattainable Practically

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