Quotes from Karl Malone


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


Did you really think I would sell you out?


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


I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.


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


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.


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 spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.


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.


It takes people a while to trust you.


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


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


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.


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.


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.