Karl Malone quotes:

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Charles, I lost the bet.

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

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.

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

I realize that things happen for a reason.

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.

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

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.

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

It takes people a while to trust you.

You work for whatever you get in life.

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

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

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

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

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.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

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

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

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

I realize that things happen for a reason

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

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

I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.

Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

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

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

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

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

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

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

All records are not made to be broken.