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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
Mike Krzyzewski: I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. Being in a team sport, having good coaches, having support systems are so important. I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. So at times, when I might have been doubting, or fearful, or having those negative feelings, those inhibitors, there was reassurance. And the fact that, ultimately, the fear of losing did not stop me, because I knew even if I lost, I still had these people. I wasn't losing everything. The fear of failure, I was able to get over that because of the support systems.
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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
Sometimes I go into that locker room, and I'm afraid. All of a sudden, I look at Bobby Hurley, or I look at Steve Wojciechowski, or Grant Hill, or kids that have played for me. I see in their eyes anticipation. I see ambition, I see a glaze, and all of a sudden I say, "Holy mackerel, I've got a chance to coach these guys tonight." And it helps me get over my fear, and hopefully I'm doing the same for them. That's when you connect as a group, when that's going back and forth.
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Charles Kuralt
A Life On the Road
As I look back on it now, I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed in my life. If I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep. I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. And, I think I probably could have done a better job if I had been more mature and been able to take a deep breath and just say, "Come on. Whether this story gets on the air tonight or not is not really the end of the world. We'll do our best and that's all we can do."
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Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
Getting into politics as a white Kenyan, quite late in the day, and doing it by forming an opposition to the incumbent president and demanding that there be constitutional reform and demanding that there be greater sensitivity to human rights and democracy, and leading a movement of young and people of other color -- I was a minority -- but being part of the fray, being attacked, being whipped and cars burnt, being beaten up, being tear-gassed, being locked up, chained up, this was all tremendously exciting. They said you couldn't do it, but we did it.
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Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
My kidney disease in '69, it wasn't pleasant. I had a transplant much later. I got 11 years out of my kidney failure. Then I had a transplant. I got 26 years out of that, and I had another transplant last year, and I am fine. I'm getting expert now at kidney disease. It's a tough disease, and many people don't survive it, but I am one of the lucky ones, and it's worked. Even the latest transplant, which -- my wife very kindly gave me a kidney. She's not a blood relative, but the drugs today are very good, and if you've got a good attitude, I think you're fine.
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Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
I lost my legs, but the way you look at it is, "What happened if the legs had lost me?" I buried the legs rather than myself, and so that's a good thing. Walking on artificial legs isn't the best way to get around, but there are advantages. People go out of their way to help you. You get wheelchairs through long queues, and lines at customs and immigration. If the seat's too small in an airline, you can take your legs off and fit in very comfortably. So there are a number of positives about this, and I wouldn't by any means think it was all negative. It taught me a great deal about bipedalism, which is the fundamental of humanity. I had always lectured about the important steps in becoming a human, one of which is bipedalism. It happened six, seven million years ago probably. I never really thought about the implications of being bipedal, and to me, bipedalism is the key to the extraordinary levels of compassion that we seem to be programmed to. People don't necessarily come to that conclusion.
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