I always believed him. If Coach K said the sky will be purple when you get outside, I would have believed him.

For me, personally, on the inside, the best moment was winning my first championship.

I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm a little bit of a soccer dad.

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

I did pursue to be a good basketball player.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and watch the U.S.A. compete. To join that team later, and play and practice one-on-one with David Robinson, Larry Bird, Chris Mullens and all these guys I looked up to, was a dream come true.

You pay attention to detail. You try to win every time. You play tough. And when you play the right way and be accountable to each other, you're going to have success and enjoy the game that much more.

Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.

My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.