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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
Mike Krzyzewski: With me and basketball, it became part of me. First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. I liked that. "Well, here's Mike, he's a basketball player." That connection was good. It helped me have confidence in other areas, because it wasn't just "Mike," it was "Mike, who is also a good basketball player." So I worked at it, and I really liked it. It became a friend. When I had troubles, I'd go out -- with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize. Your imagination could run wild. I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. It helped me become a much more confident person. It was much more than a game to me, and always has been.
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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
I met my team, and I told them, "We're going to win," and I looked into their eyes. Then, when they sat on the bench, I looked at them again, I said, "We are going to win." I felt we were connected. Then I asked Grant Hill -- instead of telling him what to do -- I asked Grant, "Can you throw the ball 75 feet?" And he said, "Yes, I'll throw it." And by saying it already, I think he had already done it. In fact, I think if you had interviewed him now, he would say that, "Well, I gave my word that I was going to do it." But if I said, "Grant, you throw it," it would have been me telling him to do something. I asked Christian Laettner, "If they ring you up, can you catch it?" He says, "Coach, if Grant throws it, I'll catch it." All of a sudden, there was that -- some people would call that bravado, or cocky talk, but we had gone from walking off the court scattered, mentally and physically, to now, a minute and a half later, to believing that we were going to win.
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Meave Leakey
Pioneering Paleoanthropologist
Once we had worked the site at 4.1 million, which is called Kanapoi, we decided that we could work at a site that was the same age as Lucy and see if we could find afarensis, or whether we'd find something else. Because again, I was still thinking that there should have been diversity at that time, and it shouldn't just be the common ancestor there, but it should go back further. So that's why we were working at that age, 'cause it was the same age as the sites from which Lucy came. What we found there was a skull, and other specimens as well. But we only named the skull because we couldn't relate the other specimens directly to the skull. But the skull had a very flat face and a very long face. Lucy's face is much more protruding and much more ape-like in many ways, actually. The face shape showed that the species was not afarensis, it was something different. So it showed that there were at least two hominid species living at the same time as Lucy. So therefore, Lucy wasn't necessarily the common ancestor. It could have been the species that we found, that we called Kenyanthropus platyops, or it can be something else that we haven't yet found. I believe sincerely that in the end, there will be several different things found at that time as there are later.
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