1.
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
Karl Malone
2.
What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.
Karl Malone
3.
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
4.
What good is success if you're not willing to share it?
Karl Malone
5.
It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone
6.
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.
Karl Malone
7.
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
Karl Malone
8.
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
9.
Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.
Karl Malone
10.
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
Karl Malone
11.
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
12.
I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!
Karl Malone
13.
I realize that things happen for a reason
Karl Malone
14.
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.
Karl Malone
15.
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
16.
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
17.
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
Karl Malone
18.
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
19.
I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.
Karl Malone
20.
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
21.
You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.
Karl Malone
22.
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
23.
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
24.
I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
Karl Malone
25.
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
Karl Malone
26.
Charles, I lost the bet.
Karl Malone
27.
You work for whatever you get in life.
Karl Malone
28.
You don't try to do more than you should.
Karl Malone
29.
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
30.
I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
Karl Malone
31.
I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught
Karl Malone
32.
At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
Karl Malone
33.
Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?
Karl Malone
34.
All records are not made to be broken.
Karl Malone
