Roy Williams
Roy Williams
Hall of Fame men's basketball coach who gathered an incredible 80% winning record at North Carolina and Kansas. He led North Carolina to NCAA Championships in 2005 and 2009.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 August 1950
CityMarion, NC
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You don't need to rub it in. I love our crowd but I don't like putting other people down.
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We have a lot to prove and we're not going to come out here hanging our heads down because we had a 6-10 season. This is a new year.
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When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.
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We were a pretty confident bunch beforehand. I think I'm confident. I hope it's not over the edge of cockiness, but I told them I felt like we were the only team in this country that could come in here and win this game.
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(The regular season) is 16 games over two or three months, as opposed to three games over one weekend. It's more difficult to win the regular season.
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For us, he was by far he was the best prospect in the country because of what he could bring us, and that was the inside scoring. I've never been one to prejudge, but I've always had hopes. I had some pretty high hopes, or we were going to be in trouble. He's so mentally tough and physically tough, and I thought he would be able to help from the get-go.
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He's been magnificent; he's been sensational. He and Wes have been great at working together and pushing each other. There's not a bad bone in that boy's body. If there is, I haven't seen it yet.
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The people here in town do a great job with the tournament, everybody around it, the workers, the ushers. They've done it well enough that people keep asking them to do it again.
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We're open to serve the humanitarian needs for the community.
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We're on paper right now. Those guys in Green Bay are tops on the field.
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I hate it for Mike, because he was so diligent this past summer in doing what he had to do to join our basketball program,
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I hate it for Damion because he was prepared to play this year and had an opportunity to help us, ... From a basketball perspective, it certainly has an impact on our frontcourt depth. We didn't have much to start with, and now we are losing our biggest low-post player.
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I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.
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I feel very fortunate. If I was on the road, I'd get out of town as fast as I could. I feel like I stole somebody's candy.