Karl Malone
Karl Malone
Karl Anthony Maloneis an American retired professional basketball player. Nicknamed "The Mailman", Malone played the power forward position and spent his first 18 seasonsin the National Basketball Associationwith the Utah Jazz and formed a formidable duo with his teammate John Stockton. Malone also played for the Los Angeles Lakers. Malone was a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a 14-time NBA All-Star, and an 11-time member of the All-NBA first team. He scored the second most career points in NBA history,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth24 July 1963
CitySummerfield, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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.
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.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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.
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.
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.
Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
Did you really think I would sell you out?
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
There was a lot of red tape, and I ain't got time for that. ... FEMA didn't approve, but we did it for the people.
After 18 years, for them to stoop to that kind of level, that's no class. And that's something I'll never forget.