Karl Malone Quotes

Every player, they should sit down and have a meeting. They should agree, 'this is how we play Nadal, this is how we play Federer, this is how we play Djokovic.' Then, all try to play them the same way. The right way. First you have to play the right way, then you need to play well.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

I don't back down. Like, I don't know how to flop. That's never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can't make open jump shots, I have an advantage.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.

I watch a lot of tapes, a lot of games, all the replays. You watch the highlights on TV, those are all about goals getting scored or big saves. So you just look and see what guys do and how they're successful, and sometimes I see something and I go, Wow, that could work for me.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there's no better guy in the world that I've been around than Jim O'Brien at breaking down film.

I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was, and I knew what I had to do to prohibit him from being as effective on the basketball court as he had been throughout his career.

Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

In a sport that's as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.

The one thing that young coaches should do is if there is an NBA team in your area, get to training camp and see the coaching that goes on.

I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

The coaches that I have have done an incredible job with me, obviously the stuff we work on on the court.

Assistants like Tim Grgurich worked with me and watched film of me from my Oregon State days.

It's important to know as much as I can about the players.

There are always people you can turn to for help and advice. Former coaches, people I used to play with in Belgium and in England. It is good to have people you can look to for support, but in the end you are out on the pitch on your own and you have to come through it for yourself.

Teams are trying to get the advantage over the other team by what kind of reads we can get, how can we measure guys if they're tired - all these things.

It is good to play strong teams.

I think playoff experience matters for sure.

If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.