Karl Malone Quotes

• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  Karl Malone

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

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

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

  Karl Malone

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

  Karl Malone

• 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.

  Karl Malone

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

  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.

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

  Karl Malone

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

  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

• 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

• 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.

  Karl Malone

• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  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

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

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• All records are not made to be broken.

  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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