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. Christian Laettner Read Quote
People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You’re different when you’re 45 than when you’re 25. Christian Laettner Read Quote
This is something people don’t realize about me, but I can laugh – and laugh at myself. Christian Laettner Read Quote
If you are not a Dukie, and Duke is having a lot of success year after year, you might get tired of it. They might not like your competing personality or competing persona, and if you are not a Dukie, or you don’t love Duke or Christian Laettner, then I can understand the hating on me. Christian Laettner Read Quote
I always played my best when I respected my opponent and was a little scared of them because they could beat me. Every game I played in college, that was the case. Christian Laettner Read Quote
For my entire Duke career, people were gunning for us and hating us and wanting us to lose, so I got used to that right away. Every team is going to give you their best shot. Everyone wants to beat you. Christian Laettner Read Quote
I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn’t gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke. Christian Laettner Read Quote
No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that’s fine. Christian Laettner Read Quote
It amuses me that just because I’m white and always looked skinny, I’m supposed to be unphysical, soft, not tough. Christian Laettner Read Quote
