100 Quotes by Christian Laettner

A layup or two early will help your confidence.

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.

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.

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

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 why it never happens out there.

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.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

Any opposing gym we go into, I want them to hate me. At the end of the game, I want to be beating their team so bad that they should hate me.

You earn playing time on the practice floor.