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.

You work for whatever you get in life.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it’s not good.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It takes people a while to trust you.

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.

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.

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

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