he didn't go by the name krzyzewski, he went by the name "cross."was always afraid of losing his job because there was a lot of ethnic discrimination at that time. i didn't realize all the things that my parents -- >> gave up? >> gave up. >> hid? your parents didn't even want you guys to learn to speak polish. >> polish, right. >> why? >> and i didn't find out this until later, they didn't want us to have an accent, because they were afraid again -- they're in that time, somebody with a vowel at the end of their name may have been looked at differently. they were concerned. >> they were trying to protect you. >> they were trying to protect me and my brother. >> so much so that it wasn't on his tombstone until -- >> yeah. he was in world war ii as william cross. and so when he died, and we, you know, were a low-income family, the government provides a tombstone. it said "cross." and we weren't able to change that until my mom passed, and my brother and i made sure it said krzyzewski. i was fortunate to be inducted into the basketball hall of fame in