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I root for John Calipari.
It's not good to be a hater.
Larry Johnson was fun to watch.
I love muskie fishing in the summer time.
You cannot just allow your team to stink.
You earn playing time on the practice floor.
I did pursue to be a good basketball player.
I've got a beautiful wife and a beautiful family.
I like Minnesota. I'd be very happy playing there.
I pursued to have my team win as much as we could.
Sometimes you've just got to will it into the hoop.
If you're not a Duke fan, you're not going to like me.
I don't think the world hated Duke basketball before me.
There's gotta be a villain; there's gotta be a good guy.
I'm up in Minneapolis all the time. I love being up there.
I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.
My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.
I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.
When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.
The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.
I've been on teams in the NBA where we don't play the right way.
I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm a little bit of a soccer dad.
How many people get to say a '30 for 30' is being made about them?
I bought into everything Coach K preached to us. His whole philosophy.
I realize everyone has the image and perception that I was the worst person.
When I'm older and my children have grown up, I would like to coach in the NBA.
I loved my time in Minnesota. I loved it so much that I lived up there until 1999.
I'm versatile in every part of my game - except being nice, which I am only at home.
For me, personally, on the inside, the best moment was winning my first championship.
This is something people don't realize about me, but I can laugh - and laugh at myself.
I don't watch any NBA games today, because it makes me sad: I want to be back out there.
Shaq is such a load. He's so big and strong, but it's possible to play well against him.
Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.
I got a beautiful wife and beautiful, healthy children, and that's really all you can ask for.
If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!
I pursued to have my team win as much as we could, and it doesn't happen without great teammates.
As a thrill in my career, the Olympics rank right up there with my two NCAA championships at Duke.
I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its cover.
People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.
I always believed him. If Coach K said the sky will be purple when you get outside, I would have believed him.
Anytime the premiere sports channel calls you and says they want to do a movie about you, you're going to say, 'Yes.'
My biggest regret in life - well, one of them - is that I wasn't muskie fishing from '92 to '96 when I was not married.
I can't say I go through life liking it and that I pursue to be hated, but I did pursue to be a good basketball player.
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 had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.
Every basketball thing I do now through my academy is always in a muskie state so I can work both those passions at the same time.
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.
It's very important to know how to dribble and pass and catch and cut at a very high level if you want to be a good basketball player.
The Olympics in '92, I didn't contribute that much. I had more to do with winning the National Championships than I did the gold medal.
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.