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
We had one guy come up to us and tell us to go to another neighborhood and that these people could afford to pay, ... I told him, 'Why should they pay? They just lost everything.'
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.
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.
He's hard-nosed, ... He's great with his players, too. A lot of the things that I do come from him. If you've got a guy who can shoot, you bring him off screens. And if you've got a guy who can dribble, you do the pick and roll.
Starting off my career, I wasn't a good free throw shooter, and I worked at it and worked at it, and now I want to go up there and shoot free throws, and now... it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about how many guys have played the game... when I finish playing and I look back on it, I think it'll be huge. Right now I'm still playing the game, it's kind of tough to really stop and think about it.
I just realized that not only early in my career but, if I was going to play longer, guys foul you when they get tired.
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 can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
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.
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
I've been away for more than 20 years. The day I left was the day I was ready to come back home. I just want to thank Terry for coming back home for this event.
Everything about this just felt right. My mom died two years ago, and in our last conversation, she told me that one day I would have to step up on a grand scale and help people. I knew this was it.
I was in ankle-deep water for 18 years, never took a dangerous step, content as hell,
But they didn't keep me up at night like Mike. You know how, when you go on road trips, the night before a game you like to check out the restaurants? Well, you couldn't do that in Chicago. You'd worry about Mike getting 60 (points). It was a good game if he only had 40.