I used to tell my mother, 'Mom, when they write really flattering things about your son, don't believe it all. And when they write really negative things about your son, don't believe it all.'

I realize everyone has the image and perception that I was the worst person.

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

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'm different now than I was when I was 20 years old.

When you're being interviewed every day, and you're tired, you can make mistakes and say the wrong things, especially when you're young. When you're young, you don't realize everything, and you're a little naive.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

This is something people don't realize about me, but I can laugh - and laugh at myself.

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.

How many people get to say a '30 for 30' is being made about them?

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.

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.

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.

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.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

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

Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.

When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.

Honestly, the Carolina games I played in every year were more intense than the national championship games I played in - they had a better environment.

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

Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.

I'd love to do movies.

I like Minnesota. I'd be very happy playing there.

Shaq is such a load. He's so big and strong, but it's possible to play well against him.

Basketball is more than just strength and power.

I was how I was in college because I had to be. I played angry. I played hard. I stepped on guys' chests, I hit a game-winner against UConn.

My senior year was crazy. We were defending champions, we were on national TV just about every weekend, and we were winning. Teams always brought their best when they went up against us, and we always matched it.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

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

I'm versatile in every part of my game - except being nice, which I am only at home.

If you're not a Duke fan, you're not going to like me.

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.

People say I'm selfish. There might be some truth to that.

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.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.

High heels empower women in a way.

My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.