A lot of times, I hate to say this, I've realized in time that there's lots of times coaches have to go, and there are times in basketball that players need to be moved.


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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int...
KARL MARLANTES
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia...
KARL MARLANTES
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES
I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I ...
KARL MARLANTES
In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on...
KARL MARLANTES
And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p...
KARL MARLANTES
I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well the...
KARL MARLANTES
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
KARL MARLANTES
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about ...
KARL MARLANTES
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at th...
KARL MARLANTES
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec...
KARL MARLANTES
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that ever...
KARL MARLANTES
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
KARL MARLANTES
It takes people a while to trust you.
KARL MALONE
I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re...
KARL MALONE
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'...
KARL MALONE
To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE
All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE
I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
KARL MALONE
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE
You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st...
KARL MALONE
You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, b...
KARL MALONE
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know i...
KARL MALONE
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
KARL MALONE
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do ...
KARL MALONE
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have...
KARL MALONE
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the l...
KARL MALONE
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ...
KARL MALONE
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't f...
KARL MALONE
Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE
You work for whatever you get in life.
KARL MALONE
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play w...
KARL MALONE
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE
I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
KARL MALONE
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE
Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
KARL MALONE
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it....
KARL MALONE
My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
KARL MALDEN