Karl Malone Quotes

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

Professional sports has to be part of the solution [to the drug problem]. The question I put to the group [of sports leaders] is, "While we are pressing very hard on schools and others to have tough policies, it seems only right and reasonable that professional sports have these kind of standards.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Agitating the community and increasingly forcing itself upon our attention is the narcotic drug evil. I am convinced that part of the agitation on this subject is due to the sensationalism of certain types of newspapers and magazines. Lurid, sensational articles, intended to inflame the imagination of young people and to make the whole subject mysteriously and morbidly attractive, have led to the prevalence of a belief that the use of narcotic drugs is much more general than it really is.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.

I grew up in the streets of Pueblo [Colorado]. I never knew marijuana was illegal,

The song 'Assassins Of Youth'... 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record.

Major League Baseball is doing everything to make the game as clean as possible.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

I've never done drugs in my life.

I don't like to use - I never use - any kind of drugs to help me in my fights. I don't like that. I don't like drugs.

There are just so many substances that are considered banned substances because in some way it could help your performance on the court. As athletes, we should be responsible for what we put in our bodies.

Was he a doper or was he just a loser?

You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people do what they want. It's like smoking pot. If you experiment with it, it doesn't mean you're the devil, and it doesn't mean you've ruined your body. It just means you tried it.