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“I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different, and I acted on that in a way.”

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Wilt Chamberlain, born on August 21, 1936 and died on October 12, 1999, was an American professional basketball player. He achieved great success in the NBA and is considered one of the greatest basketball players in history. more

“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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Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“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.”

Way Growing Up Growing Childhood Particular Good Childhood

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“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.”

Bigger Stronger Casts Villain

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

People Knows Kind Mean Hard Levels Type Villain

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“A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.”

Littles Bigs Kids Dog Ease Gentle

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“I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.”

Ifs Way I Can Sometimes Helping Grows Land India Amazed Controversy Beard Editorials

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.”

Devil Be Good

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow was strictly English, and he was editor of the newspaper there. He shook my hand after I got off the train and said, "Hello, Satchmo." So right away my trombone player said, "Mmm, the man thinks you have mo' mouth than Satchel Mouth." So I was stuck with it, and it turned out all right.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to be around 13 or 14 years old, they took me off the bugle and put me in the little brass band.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

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