Christian Laettner

I don't believe many teams can do it just with one really, really good player. You have to be surrounded with a good cast.

I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

I know I used to play basketball every day, whether it was for fun with my older brother or if it was organized basketball on teams.

I'm sure I was insensitive. I'm probably still a jerk at times. But my priority as a freshman was to be good in basketball and play a lot. Not to be the nicest person in the world. I was one-track-minded. I still am.

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

I want to see kids go to college more.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

I'm different now than I was when I was 20 years old.

I'm versatile in every part of my game - except being nice, which I am only at home.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

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 and your coaches, and no one else. I enjoyed the games at Chapel Hill a little more because of that.