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I want to be remembered as a well-rounded player who played the forward spot."</P> <P><U>On year-round lifting: </U>"Sometimes people think you can just show up when training camp starts and start working out and conditioning in the weight room.&nbsp; I've always said my workouts in the summer are harder than any practice I've ever had and I try to prepare myself for that.&nbsp; I'm afraid not to do what I do now because it's been working for so many years.</P> <P>"In the summer time, I do take time to do things I like to do... I have a wife and three kids, I ride Harleys.&nbsp; I like to go fishing and hunting but I also work out on my own because I think it allows me to be a step ahead of those other guys who don't work out as much."</P> <P><U>On, if he were a high school basketball coach would he have his players weight train:</U> "Do fish swim.&nbsp; Of course I would.&nbsp; And, I tell you this... If they wouldn't lift, they wouldn't play for Karl Malone."</P> <P><U>On his teammates:</U> "The guys on this Jazz team mean everything to me.&nbsp; They've made it a pleasure to go to work every day."</P> <P align=center><STRONG>MALONE BY THE NUMBERS</STRONG></P> <P align=left><STRONG>33: </STRONG>Age, oldest NBA player to win MVP honors.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>26.1:</STRONG> Career scoring average.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>7:</STRONG> Average scoring rank among players with 10,000 points or 400 games.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>25,592:</STRONG> Career points scored.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>10:</STRONG> All-time scoring rank in the NBA.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>10,542:</STRONG> Career rebounds.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>5:</STRONG> Players, including Malone, who have scored 25,000 points and grabbed 10,000 rebounds.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>12:</STRONG> Players taken before Malone in the NBA draft.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>980:</STRONG> NBA games played.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>4:</STRONG> Games he has missed.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>467:</STRONG> Consecutive games played.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>48.1: </STRONG>Free-throw % as a rookie.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>77.8:</STRONG> Career free-throw %.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>71:</STRONG> Times he led the team in scoring last season.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>2:</STRONG> Olympic Gold Medals won.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>3:</STRONG> Children: Kadee Lynn, Kylee Ann, and Karl Jr. </P> <P align=left><STRONG>$4,500,000:</STRONG> Malone's salary.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>3: </STRONG>Class C Louisiana State Championships won while Karl played for Summerfield High School 1979-80-81.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>9:</STRONG> Second youngest of nine children, Karl first started shooting baskets when his mother fashioned a hoop by cutting the metal rim off a water barrel.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>1:</STRONG> First year at Louisiana Tech spent pul