Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Moses Malone

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Moses Eugene Malone was an American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1974 through 1995. A center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and an eight-time All-NBA Team selection. Malone led the Philadelphia 76ers to an NBA championship in 1983, winning both the league and Finals MVP. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, Malone is also seen as one of the most underrated NBA players.

American - Athlete | March 23, 1955 - September 13, 2015

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I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?

Moses Malone

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

Moses Malone

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

Moses Malone

If you want to win, you come to play; I don't come to half-step. If you think that you're No. 2 out there, then you won't be nothing. You can't have that. You have to be No. 1. That's the thing.

Moses Malone

My game is hard work and pride. On the all hard-work team, I'd pick myself five times.

Moses Malone

Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.

Moses Malone

I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I don't pay much attention to the little guys; I like the big guys who do the dirty work.

Moses Malone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moses Malone

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

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

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

Moses Malone

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

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

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

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

Moses Malone

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

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

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

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

Moses Malone

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

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

Moses Malone

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

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

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

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