Karl Malone Quotes

• 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.

  Karl Malone

• You work for whatever you get in life.

  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

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

  Karl Malone

• You don’t try to do more than you should.

  Karl Malone

• When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

  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

• 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.

  Karl Malone

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

  Karl Malone

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

  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

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

  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

• 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

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  Karl Malone

• 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.

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

  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

• 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

Karl Malone (40)

Birth:	24th July, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

About

Karl Anthony Malone is a retired American professional basketball power forward. He spent his first 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association with the Utah Jazz and formed a formidable duo with his teammate John Stockton. Malone was a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a 14-time NBA All-Star, and an 11-time member of the All-NBA first team.

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