Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

It takes people a while to trust you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

You work for whatever you get in life.