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====== Years ago I watched the famous basketball star Wilt Chamberlain on a television talk show. Wilt was one of the original old-time big basketball stars. In the days before Michael Jordan, Shaq, Rodman and the other household basketball names, there was Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt broke all kinds of basketball records. He had a 100-point game among the other records he established. I was counseling a man who stated that he wished that he had a harem of several women to end his romantic problems. I thought of Wilt and that television interview. Although Wilt held numerous basketball records, the record that Wilt is most famous (or infamous) for is the statement he made concerning his personal life. Wilt claimed that by age 55, he had slept with 20,000 women. That statement shocked the sports world. Wilt started at 15; that's 500 new women per year. That's 10 per week. How did one man have an average of ten new women in his life each week for 40 years? I couldn't fathom that yet I knew many men secretly wished they had such a life. The world focused on the 20,000. I am sure many men imagined those were 20,000 rather attractive women as Wilt was a sports icon the world over. Wilt said, "The average Joe would have proposed to any of those 20,000 on the first date." Yes, Wilt appeared to be living the "life." What the world missed was Wilt's other statement. It's the "other" statement that always stayed with me. Wilt Chamberlain in essence said, "I would rather have had one woman that I truly loved, than 20,000 that I didn't." Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines and he reached a similar conclusion. "...all is vanity." While scoring over 30,000 points on the court, Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out. Off the court, he never truly scored. Wilt died in 1999. The score 20,000 to 0 Learn the lesson of Wilt's "other" statement. ~A MountainWings Original~