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
coin flipped gym high mean past school
We flipped a coin in the end zone, I mean past the baseline, in a high school gym in Vegas.
meant responsibility
He has meant everything. As a senior, you feel responsibility even more.
admire mean offense played ran
You just have to admire how they played down the stretch. They ran their offense well and they bodied us up. I don't mean anything dirty.
meaning walk
I'll go for a nice, brisk walk - brisk meaning the temperature, not my pace.
behind meant people seen truly understood
If people had seen and truly understood what he has meant to us behind the scenes, he may have made the first team.
bad fold fought four meant south start stretch talking three youngster
He's meant everything. He went through a stretch of three or four games, and everybody's talking bad about him. A lot of guys, when things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster didn't do it, he fought back.
bring means opponent secure since tackle taught
If I get put in the same position, would I make the same tackle? ... Yes. I've been doing it since I was a little kid. It's a secure tackle. I do what I have to do. A tackle is a tackle. You've been taught to bring down an opponent by any means necessary.
competing job second time
We keep competing all the time and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.
ball bottom hold hope line mouth pray
You can hope and pray and hold your mouth different ways, but the bottom line is, you have to put the ball in the basket.
bench came continue flat fortunate foul free guards throws trouble
We are very fortunate to continue playing. (Virginia) made 24-of-29 free throws and those two guys, Singletary and Reynolds, made 24-of-26. We came out a little flat and our guards got in foul trouble early, so we had to use our bench extensively.
attention chairs coach five full likes onto pull
Every coach likes to have his team's full attention during timeouts. We get out there and the chairs are chained together, so you can't pull five chairs out onto the court.
believe difficult league nine seven teams top
Top to bottom, this is the most difficult I've ever been in. I believe we've got some seven to nine teams in this league that are in the top 64 in this country.
difficult top
Top to bottom, this is the most difficult I've ever been in,
games team
We feel very fortunate, to say the least. First-round games are always difficult. If your team hasn't been through it, they have no idea how big it is.