Quotes By Karl Malone

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

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.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

You don't try to do more than you should.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

Did you really think I would sell you out?

It takes people a while to trust you.

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

You work for whatever you get in life.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

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.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

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.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

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.

All records are not made to be broken.

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.

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

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.

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.

Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.