Karl Malone Quotes

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.

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

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.

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

Did you really think I would sell you out?

You work for whatever you get in life.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?

When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.

I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.

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

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

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.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

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.

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.

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

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

All records are not made to be broken.

You can't stop father time ... but you can show [him] down.