Christian Laettner

“I've got a beautiful wife and a beautiful family.”

“I got a beautiful wife and beautiful, healthy children, and that's really all you can ask for.”

“My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And yo...”

“If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!”

“When you're at home for Duke-Carolina, you have a crowd of close to 10,000 around you, loving you. That's awesome. But it's also a lot of fun in Chapel Hill, where it's you, your teammates a...”

“I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.”

“My freshman year, the hate was all directed toward Danny Ferry. And every year, there's some new poor sucker at Duke who draws the ire of everybody.”

“You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.”

“Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.”

“It's not good to be a hater.”

“My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.”

“I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.”

“Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.”

“It's hard to live up to the expectations. Besides that, I think I had a very good NBA career, and I'm proud of it. I might not have been an absolute monster, but I thought I did pretty good.”

“Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.”

“You cannot just allow your team to stink.”

“For whatever reason, the people that don't appreciate Duke basketball or don't pull for Duke basketball, they have a tendency to vilify one of the players. And a lot of times, it might be a...”