Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

Beginning players are predictable and rarely bluff. They tend to focus only on their own hand and simply hope to catch the one card they need to improve.

The value of small pocket pairs comes from the possibility of flopping three of kind and winning a sizable pot. To that extent, playing this type of hand is a low risk/high reward proposition.

Bluffing is most effective when done sporadically; bluff too often, and you'll blow your credibility.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

Basketball is more than just strength and power.

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

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

I'd love to do movies.

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

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

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.

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.

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.