Christian Laettner

You cannot just allow your team to stink.

— Christian Laettner

You can only be that confident if you know you've done the work.

— Christian Laettner

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

— Christian Laettner

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

— Christian Laettner

I bought into everything Coach K preached to us. His whole philosophy.

— Christian Laettner

Part of me would like for not all the Kentucky, Carolina, and Connecticut fans to despise me, but another part of me…

— Christian Laettner

I pursued to have my team win as much as we could.

— Christian Laettner

Basketball is a non-aggressive game. So when emotions are high, there's a very low chance to get angry or yell. So that's…

— Christian Laettner

I'd love to do movies.

— Christian Laettner

I'm not gonna say I'm the greatest guy, but the reason I don't hate is I know what it feels like to…

— Christian Laettner

I can't say I go through life liking it and that I pursue to be hated, but I did pursue to be…

— Christian Laettner

People don't know how awesome Minnesota is... I love it up here. And when I was playing up here, I loved every…

— Christian Laettner

Anytime the premiere sports channel calls you and says they want to do a movie about you, you're going to say, 'Yes.'

— Christian Laettner

If you are not a Dukie, and Duke is having a lot of success year after year, you might get tired of…

— Christian Laettner

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…

— Christian Laettner

It amuses me that just because I'm white and always looked skinny, I'm supposed to be unphysical, soft, not tough.

— Christian Laettner

Well, my last year was 04-05 with the Heat, and I relaxed for a few years, and I said, 'Well, what am…

— Christian Laettner

I don't think the world hated Duke basketball before me.

— Christian Laettner

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what…

— Christian Laettner

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…

— Christian Laettner

I'm sure I was insensitive. I'm probably still a jerk at times. But my priority as a freshman was to be good…

— Christian Laettner

For whatever reason, the people that don't appreciate Duke basketball or don't pull for Duke basketball, they have a tendency to vilify…

— Christian Laettner

I pursued to have my team win as much as we could, and it doesn't happen without great teammates.

— Christian Laettner

I love muskie fishing in the summer time.

— Christian Laettner

When I'm older and my children have grown up, I would like to coach in the NBA.

— Christian Laettner