Our bench is doing a good job responding right now. We're spacing and passing the ball better. You're not going to lose many games when you have 30-plus assists.
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Related When you have more turnovers than assists, you aren't going to win very many games. You can't turn t... JEFF GUIOT I've seen 17-year-old kids get rattled over things like this. But our spacing was better this time, ... BRIAN DARTT We are doing a combination of things well right now. On offense, they are working the ball well with... DALE HEDGES When you commit twice as many errors as runs, you don't win many ball games. I keep telling these ki... DENNIS DACUS We're not going to win all 82 games straight. Guys get tired, sometimes we lose our focus. We lose g... CARLOS ARROYO I missed those three or four weeks and watched the other guys play and I enjoyed it. They may not ha... CORNELIUS GRIFFIN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD We've got to do a better job. I felt confident we had the right people out there to get it done and ... DAVE ROWELL Our goal is to get better and build for the future. We're going 11 deep right now, and there's no de... ERIC LEVIE He's doing well. We're finding out what he does well play-action and bootleg and what he doesn... JEFF STEINBERG The turnovers were more a product of our spacing. We got out of sync and (Romeo) did a nice job of p... BILL SNYDER Our spacing was good, which made it very difficult to corral me. When they did, we were able to swin... KOBE BRYANT He practiced on his kicking and as you can see he got better at it. When he first came he barely kne... BRIAN ROLLE The nice thing right now is we're getting a lot of offense from our entire lineup. The top of the li... DAVE SCHWEDER We're doing a better job moving the ball to the outside and our passing has gotten better. We play i... CHARLES DYER It is something we have to address. We aren't going to win many close games by making those types of... DAN CALLAHAN At first it was erratic every time he snapped the ball but now he is doing a good job of putting it ... MARQUES HAGANS In the SEC, when you get out-rebounded like that, you're not going to win too many ball games. CAROLYN PECK Realistically, you aren't going to be able to completely end homelessness. But we certainly can do a... CLIFF SMITH I have got to do a better job of picking our non-conference games. You could just see right from the... LYLE WILKS Our bench was big. We struggled there for a while, but right now we seem to be back on track with th... KRISTY CURRY It's embarrassing. We know we were brutal. We sucked. The fans told us and they were right about tha... DONALD BRASHEAR You're passing the ball around, getting assists, scoring points, getting turnovers, it's a lot of fu... ALLYSON FASNACHT That was the difference right there. You're not going to win too many ball games shooting like that ... JOEL FEY We did a nice job of driving the ball today. Our pitching, plus the five extra-base hits were big. BOB ATWELL We were beaten by a better team. They are a better team than us on Dec. 30, 2005. The good thing is ... LARRY HERRHOLTZ That's been our ticker right there. It takes three components to win a game, and we forgot one of ou... BOB BRUGLIO You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU We're behind the 8-ball here. We need to win games. It's going to be our season, the month of Januar... GLEN MURRAY The biggest plus for me is I'm coming into a situation where they already have a good team. They're ... RICKY WILLIAMS The key thing for us right now is to not lose our belief in each other, in this team being a good te... DAVE SIMON We definitely did a better job of passing the ball. We are communicating more, and trying harder. CORY COOK We like to be able to have a consistent passing game because we have gotten to the point where we se... BOB EASON I look at this as a staff award. It's a good indicator that our staff is doing some of the right thi... MICHAEL JACKSON When we look at our passing game, the one element we have not been able to utilize effectively is LT... MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER I'm just surprised I'm not doing a better damn job. The job I thought I could do, I've not been able... DENNIS GREEN We're just out there sharing the ball the way we're supposed to and having fun. It's working for us ... HEDO TURKOGLU We had only 11 turnovers. The last three games we've done a good job taking care of the ball and wor... DOUG KNOX The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rathe... BRUCE MARTHALLER It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a... CARMAN APPLE We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA I think our areas of deficiency right now have been consistency in both offense and defense but prob... MARK ROSEN It was similar to when George (Karl) came to Milwaukee, RAY ALLEN I thought Brooks did a good job, for the most part. When he throws the ball our receivers have to ca... HERMAN EDWARDS We just have to get back to the basics. We're going to practice our passing, controlling the ball, c... JAMES INGBER It's right there and we're not finishing. It's disappointing to lose both of these games when we wer... DENISE NUGENT They're a good team. They are not going to lose 100 games. GEORGE STEINBRENNER We're doing a better job at practice. The games are easy. It's not me. I'm just one spoke in the whe... JEFF HERRON We did a good job with the forwards collapsing down low. But we're not going to win many games scori... LEE STEMPNIAK You have to look at why those turnovers happened, and I choose to give credit to our opponent, as op... TRENT JOHNSON They have been playing really steady and very good. But we are very confident. We have been doing a ... VICTOR BATISTA The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, t... CARMELO ANTHONY I?m just trying to let the game come to me. In practice, I shoot the ball non-stop. I get into a gam... DEBBIE MERRILL I'm excited to be joining a talented team like the Nuggets. They have a great owner and Kiki and Coa... EARL WATSON We feel fortunate we've put ourselves in there, but the toughest stretch of the season is coming up ... HOYT WOODLE We must have had 30 turnovers tonight. We won't win many games if we continue to turn the ball over ... DOMINICK ROMERO Our passing game had a connection today. Brandon had a really good game and the receivers did a good... CHRIS STANTON You have to give them credit, their guards must have shot about 60 percent from the 15-, 17-foot ran... DAVE KLINGEL It was a well-deserved win. Travis Lyon dominated the mid-field. He and Walker Davis worked the ball... DAVE MOLINA It's good to win close games. You learn from close games. I think it's good to learn from them right... DEREK COLEMAN It was great to see our team execute. We really moved the ball, we got good shots and we were lookin... C. VIVIAN STRINGER So a passing team definitely gives us more problems. It's going to be very difficult because they ha... BOBBY WALLACE We figured out a way to win. In these last two wins, if you look at the assists we had in those game... JOSH SMITH Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer c... JOHN UPDIKE When we were sitting on the bench, we were just so excited. We started talking about which one of th... CALLIE WIDEL I'm going to miss the job. When something's been a part of your life for so many years and now all o... DALLAS HEDRICK We were off on our spacing offensively a little tonight and you have to give Nevada some credit for ... MERLE OLBERDING You can take good, aggressive penalties, but we're not doing that. We're either overzealous, or we'r... GREG PUHALSKI Caroline really does a nice job passing the ball. She sets up a lot of our offense with her ability ... BLAKE BUDROW Absolutely not. Playing selfish will get you on the bench. It's easy to pull a starter when the guy ... LUKE WEAVER I don't think we're going to be satisfied with being a .500 ball club. Obviously we're not going to ... GREGG ZAUN As a freshman, she could hardly kick the ball 10 yards. Now she really sees the field well. She had ... DAN JOHNSON Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi... JANICE HARDY We're frustrated and we should be. How many times do you have to go through this? How many games is ... PAUL SATHER Whitney did a good job of mixing things up. We have talked about that (wasting solid pitching perfor... DANA FIEDLER Shooting the puck quicker and passing the puck quicker: Those are two things we're not doing right n... COREY MARKHAM That was a pretty good shot. The guys have hit the ball real well the last four or five games. They ... GARRY ASH We felt like we would run the ball well. The offensive line did a good job. We need to work on the p... JEFFREY HARNESS The good thing is that we're doing a better job with our rotations, we're helping each other out and... BRENDAN HAYWOOD I think each of our players is going into each game prepared to play 40 minutes. We've played so man... ALEXIS KENDRICK I really like his game. If I were to critique it, I would say that I would like to see him be a litt... DEL HARRIS Weymouth forced us to throw the ball and Nick did a great job. He also had two drops that would've b... TOM LAMB We're so many games in, we shouldn't be trying to find it. But that's what we're doing. That's what ... ALLEN IVERSON If Karl Rove were indicted, that would be like George W. Bush losing his right arm at a time when he... DAVID GERGEN I wasn't hitting anything and George was getting hot. Just like the other games when I've been hot h... BRYAN ERCE We're going to run the ball. We have been able to get ahead in the last few games, and that's the tr... HANS BLOCK The passing was excellent. The kids were anticipating every ball. Our finishing came at just the rig... MAURICIO MACIEL I sat the bench (with the Kings) for I don't know how many games. It is just a coach's preference wh... BRIAN SKINNER Obviously it's not very nice to lose somebody like we did this morning. Right now I'm just doing my ... BRYAN HERTA Were going to need our bench more than ever now, and we have some great players that can step up. We... CARMEN DOLFO Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a l... BO RYAN He's doing very well. He's had good at bats. He's hitting the ball hard. He also is doing the job in... DAVE PANO I thought we passed the ball well and got our best offensive flow going. Jake had a couple of nice a... JOE KINCH North Haven plays disciplined hockey and doesn't make many mistakes so you have to capitalize when t... COACH LOU PANE I think over the past 20 games or so the bench has done a good job of being sharp and focused. And t... JACQUE VAUGHN At halftime, we were told to take more shots, we were passing the ball too much. In the second half,... KATIE DONNELLAN They were doing a real good job running some games on defense, some games we had not seen. Give cred... DENNIS ROLAND That's what they do ? we knew that coming in ? but they're hard to defend because they do a great jo... ANTHONY GOLDWIRE Learn to let your intuition—gut instinct—tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn�... OPRAH WINFREY It was a good start, but we need to be quicker to the ball and be more active on the court. Our pass... 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The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not i... GEORGE KARL I don't know where these guys fit in our team, ... but they're all very hardworking, very serious pl... GEORGE KARL The pep talk was good. I was fired up. I told them some stories? (Karl told the players) how your gr... GEORGE KARL He's more mature toward all aspects of the game. I think he understands that the complete player is ... GEORGE KARL He's a superman and a super-human athlete, but I just know how hard it is to score points in our gam... GEORGE KARL I think he seems a little more hesitant shooting the jumper than he did earlier this year. GEORGE KARL We're in a stage of our season, and we've had already two or three stages like this, when we have to... GEORGE KARL I kind of lived by the code of 'I'm going to be a hard-working guy.' And no matter how s... GEORGE KARL Fatigue was a factor. Each team was tired. Both teams played a big-time basketball game. 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GEORGE KARL They were just fed up with playing so many close games against (the Spurs) and not winning. A lot of... GEORGE KARL I like the way we played. It was the most complete offensive performance we've had all season. GEORGE KARL He's a pretty impressive guy every time he's played. I think once the coaches know he's going to be ... GEORGE KARL He's a young kid who is going to be asked great questions, and he's not always going to have knowled... GEORGE KARL Defensively, we were good enough to win and it seems like our karma has changed and we are winning g... GEORGE KARL My gut says he's not allowed to break the plane until the ball hits the rim. He's pretty Superman-li... GEORGE KARL I thought Carmelo did a great job last year, but I don't think anybody's going to respect either one... GEORGE KARL I think he just wants to get better. He understands that great players get better, that great player... GEORGE KARL Seems like we're playing well together right now. GEORGE KARL Kenyon had another excellent game. It continues to seem like he's getting the rust off. GEORGE KARL It's been pretty consistent when we've gone with the three little guards and tricked up the game a l... GEORGE KARL We just try to give them all an attacking mentality. That's the whole thing is to play aggressive ba... GEORGE KARL I thought that was probably the most energized Earl's been in a while. GEORGE KARL It still looks like his conditioning (needs improving). (Playing) 36 minutes (and 49 seconds) might ... GEORGE KARL No question. I thought he made some great defensive plays. GEORGE KARL It's been a pleasure watching him play. GEORGE KARL That works at Duke. I don't think it works in the NBA. They get that call at Cameron (Indoor Stadium... GEORGE KARL It's my Chinese fortune cookie. The year of the rabbit. The year of the cat. It's the year of the Nu... GEORGE KARL I thought in that 45-minute conversation, we moved towards each other. GEORGE KARL I'm hoping to get him to where he starts practicing every day because I think he needs to strengthen... GEORGE KARL I'm tired of excuses. I think it's playing with your heart, playing with intensity and playing with ... GEORGE KARL The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the pr... GEORGE KARL I thought it was clear that our bench wasn't in the game, that's the worst they've played in a long ... GEORGE KARL When we took Kenyon and Carmelo off the court in the fourth quarter it wasn't pretty. GEORGE KARL I wasn't really happy how we played in the first half. We made them really good. We didn't pass the ... GEORGE KARL San Antonio is a brilliant team. When they sense your weakness they get stronger. GEORGE KARL A lot of times, I hate to say this, I've realized in time that there's lots of times coaches have to... GEORGE KARL He's been very professional. He's a quiet guy anyway but he's been great. He's been a first-class ci... GEORGE KARL It was good to have an easy one. GEORGE KARL We're seeing a team in the fourth quarter that doesn't have the confidence to finish up a game. Last... GEORGE KARL Mark's a good personnel person, but I don't remember a vote on that one. GEORGE KARL I know it's a week, ... A week before I start yelling. GEORGE KARL He's become a consistent stud. GEORGE KARL (The Wizards) made their shots and we didn't cover anyone tonight. I'm tired of excuses. I am not pr... GEORGE KARL If he feels better (playing) just one game, I would probably push him towards the Phoenix game. GEORGE KARL Andre is our motor. I feel naked when he's not on the floor. GEORGE KARL We've been putting an all-star team together that has been dysfunctional and troublesome. I think no... GEORGE KARL What you're seeing in the fourth quarter is a team that doesn't have confidence to finish up the gam... GEORGE KARL Ray was in his zone. I've been on the good side of that and tonight I was on the bad side. He had a ... GEORGE KARL Ray was in the zone. I've been on the good side of that. Tonight I was on the bad side. GEORGE KARL If we make that extra pass, we'll find the 3-pointer and hit them. At times, we don't trust that ext... GEORGE KARL People don't understand it's a special trait to want the ball in that situation, and then to make th... GEORGE KARL It will be fun to be back in Milwaukee. But the first game is kind of your revenge. Getting the win ... GEORGE KARL I didn't think that we could outscore them. I thought we needed defensive mentality. GEORGE KARL Pat Riley has lost three of four in the first round. I guess [Rivers has] got to study history a lit... GEORGE KARL Personally, watching it kind of makes the game ugly even though if you're a San Antonio Spurs fan yo... GEORGE KARL This was as intense a game as we've had all season long. There is an intensity between these two tea... GEORGE KARL Overrated. Teams that have it, brag about it. Teams that don't have it, don't. GEORGE KARL I'm not sure they can put it all together to beat Detroit or beat a Miami or a Cleveland. But I woul... GEORGE KARL Sam's a winner. He gets the job done. I think he's in better shape than he was when I had him in Mil... GEORGE KARL You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. A... GEORGE KARL Phoenix was hungry, tougher, wanted it more and it bordered on being embarrassing. GEORGE KARL Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,... KARL MARX The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ... KARL MARX It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ... KARL MARX History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real... KARL MARX From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. KARL MARX Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ... KARL MARX If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. KARL MARX The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. KARL MARX Democracy is the road to socialism. KARL MARX Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. KARL MARX The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea... KARL MARX Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. KARL MARX There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. KARL MARX Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc... KARL MARX Religion is the opium of the masses. KARL MARX The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but... KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. KARL MARX The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen... KARL MARX Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. KARL MARX Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. KARL MARX The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. KARL MARX Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it... KARL MARX For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. KARL MARX Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. KARL MARX I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i... KARL PILKINGTON With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads... KARL PILKINGTON At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &... KARL PILKINGTON It's not a joke: I really do like being at home. KARL PILKINGTON I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? KARL PILKINGTON I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really. KARL PILKINGTON The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s... KARL PILKINGTON We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ... KARL PILKINGTON But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot. KARL PILKINGTON For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see. KARL PILKINGTON Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou... KARL PILKINGTON Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone. KARL PILKINGTON A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. KARL PILKINGTON I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding... KARL PILKINGTON People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. KARL PILKINGTON I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was... KARL PILKINGTON People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door. KARL PILKINGTON It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. KARL PILKINGTON They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just... KARL PILKINGTON I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. KARL PILKINGTON The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne... KARL MARX Statistics is the grammar of science. KARL PEARSON I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come... KARL LAGERFELD But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ... KARL ROVE You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha... KARL ROVE Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. KARL ROVE The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio... KARL ROVE Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def... KARL ROVE In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na... KARL ROVE For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven... KARL ROVE Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. KARL ROVE Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi... KARL ROVE I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ... KARL ROVE I believe in traditional marriage. KARL ROVE Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10... KARL ROVE And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M... KARL ROVE What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He... KARL ROVE The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen... KARL ROVE Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu... KARL ROVE Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. KARL ROVE Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager... KARL ROVE I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been o... KARL ROVE As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo... KARL ROVE It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. KARL ROVE Grace can and does have a history. KARL RAHNER What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m... KARL RAHNER Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. KARL RAHNER The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. KARL RAHNER How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou... KARL RAHNER Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy. KARL RADEK The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. KARL RADEK If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new moveme... KARL RADEK Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions... KARL RADEK Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of whic... KARL RADEK The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai... KARL RADEK A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. KARL RADEK In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of ... KARL RADEK Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov... KARL POPPER We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c... KARL POPPER Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. KARL POPPER There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.... KARL POPPER Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. KARL POPPER The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut... KARL PEARSON I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... KARL MARLANTES I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... KARL MARLANTES '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