Karl Malone Quotes
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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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.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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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.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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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.
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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.
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When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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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.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.