"I felt like a football player who scored the winning touchdown. Everybody piled on top of me."

on passing Wilt Chamberlain for second place on the all-time NBA scoring list

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"Stockton is the best point guard ever and I wouldn't want to play a game without him. I'm spoiled and I love it. When he leaves, I leave."

Karl Malone, 1996

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"When I look at everything going on right now in the Middle East, I think this is the least I could do. I'm honored to be on the team. . . . This is the only way to show the American people that I support the U.S. and what we are trying to do. . . . I'll be wearing my feelings on my sleeve."

after accepting an invitation to play on the 2004 U.S. national team

"A lot of younger players don't know Karl Malone. They only know what some of their buddies say. . . . People cannot like you and not know why they don't like you. [But] do I lose sleep because young players don't like me? No. Do I lose sleep because older players don't like me? No. You don't have to like me, but you're going to respect me. And that's all that matters."

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"If somebody doesn't want to play with me, I say to hell with him."

after Rony Siekaly refused to come to Utah after a trade with Orlando

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"It stinks. Terrible. Absolutely the worst. If you wanted to do something to a player, it would be no problem. Until somebody gets shot or something like that - and it's going to happen, I'm telling you - nothing is going to change. . . . From now on, I'm packing. I'm not going to be one of those 'uh-oh' kind of guys."

reflecting on a death threat prior to a game in New Jersey in 1998

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"What do you know about pressure? Try walking in Karl Malone's shoes for a day. For a month. For a year. Then maybe you'll know about pressure."

to a reporter who asked him about the pressure during the race for best record in the NBA in 1998