Quotes By Karl Malone
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
Karl Malone
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
Karl Malone
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
Karl Malone
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
Karl Malone
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
Karl Malone
I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
Karl Malone
I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
Karl Malone
If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity.
Karl Malone
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
Karl Malone
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
Karl Malone
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Karl Malone
But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
Karl Malone
Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
Karl Malone
Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
Karl Malone
Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
Karl Malone
I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
Karl Malone