Moses Malone Quotes

#1. A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

Joseph Bottum

#2. Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

Kurtis Blow

#3. I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

Moses Malone

#4. Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

Moses Malone

#5. A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Ouida

#6. I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

Moses Malone

#7. I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

Moses Malone

#8. The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Zig Ziglar

#9. The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

James A. Garfield

#10. I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Moses Malone

#11. I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.

Pablo Neruda

#12. You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

Moses Malone

#13. Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.

Ramon Paje

#14. Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

Moses Malone

#15. I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

Moses Malone

#16. When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

Moses Malone

#17. The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

Moses Malone

#18. I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

Moses Malone

#19. I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

Moses Malone

#20. When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?

Moses Malone

#21. When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

Moses Malone

#22. When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

Moses Malone

#23. Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

Moses Malone

#24. People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

Moses Malone

#25. We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog.

Gordon Korman

#26. People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."

Moses Malone

#27. I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.

Moses Malone

#28. I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.

Moses Malone

#29. Spread your happiness to others and let them spread theirs to you.

Steve Maraboli

#30. To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

Moses Malone

#31. He can't help me. Not in the way that I need to be helped. I don't want a salve or whatever form of support my mother received. I've seen one family destroyed. I don't plan on repeating that trend.

Alessandra Torre

#32. This time he just inhaled, deep and luxurious. The inhale was to fill up on her scent, she knew. The exhale was her name, just that, warm and moist against her skin.

Eileen Wilks

#33. No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

William E. Conway Jr.

#34. I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

Moses Malone

#35. I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

Moses Malone

#36. As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

Johnny Marr

#37. Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

Michael Sandel

#38. I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

Moses Malone