Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court
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- ISBN13: 9781565129597
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One of the most respected and successful basketball coaches in the nation, Coach Roy Williams traveled an unlikely path to a career that boasts the highest winning percentage among all active college coaches. Now, for the first time, he tells the tale of his life, from his turbulent childhood to the North Carolina Tar Heels’ 2009 national championship season.
With unbridled honesty, Williams recounts his rough early years in the mountains of Western North Carolina. During the troubled times of his adolescence, Roy’s escape was a basketball court—whether it was a national’s dirt court or the local school gym where he’d shoot for hours at night. There was nowhere else to go, but as it turned out, no place he’d rather be. The first in his family tree to go to college, Williams wound up at the University of North Carolina with the dream of apt a coach and learning under the celebrated Dean Smith.
He also recalls his long tenure as head coach at the University of Kansas and his two heart-wrenching decisions—to stay in Kansas at the program he built, and later, to return to UNC, to the one that built him—and the accusations that followed both.
Williams’ autobiography lays unadorned how he recruits, teaches, and motivates his players, and how he’s shepherded teams through some of the most nail-biting games at both Kansas and UNC. His approach helped earn him the third-highest winning percentage in NCAA history: better than Mike Krzyzewski, Bobby Knight, and even John Wooden. So far, the Hall of Famer has coached in seven Final Fours, winning two NCAA championships in the last five seasons.
In Hard Work, Williams reveals the determination that took him from the humblest of beginnings to the pinnacle of education success, sharing his tale because he believes that anyone can be inspired by its message: hard work really can make dreams come right.
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So, I bought this book mainly to find out if the allegation that Roy Boy badmouthed Delvon Roe of Michigan State in his book. Now, it never mentions Roe by name, but, it does talk about the intracacies of recruiting these days and there is a mention of a player who had “told me he was going to be playing for us, and then two days later he’s committed to Micghigan State.” While this is a rather tiny mention in this book its obvious that he’s personally insulted that anyone would (dare I say) not want to play for UNC. It is reasonably obvious that at the time the book was being written there were no additional players being recruited by both schools, and Roe himself even said that he though Roy was being childish. But I suppose this is what happens when you have a sense of entitlement like he has, I can only hope that people eventually learn the stack of NCAA violations he’s undoubtedly acquiring there.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
An Awesome book about UNC’s head coach- Roy Williams! It was very appealing to learn that he was born and raised in NC, and dreamed of playing for UNC as a kid. Was an assistant coach under Dean Smith for a really long time and had to sell calendars just to eat! Then after education Kansas for like 15yrs he gave it up to come back to the school he loved. Now he has 2 National Championships and we are looking for more!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this as a gift for a right UNC fan. He was tickled
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This would be a fine gift for the college basketball fan that permanently roots for the UNC Tar Heels over Duke. In //Hard Work//, Coach Roy Williams comes off a national championship season to tell the tale of his life. Williams is described as extremely likeable and modest, if far too much of a Goody Two Shoes. It may be hard for a name to tell to a person as all ears as Williams has been his entire life. Since high school he had only one goal: to be a sports coach. Fascinatingly, he tells us of his motivation as a young man whose father deserted the family tree when he was 11, “I saw education basketball as a way to give some kids the father figure I never had.”
The fault with //Hard Work//, as with most “as told to…” autobiographies, is that Williams’ personality never reasonably manages to land within its pages. It reads like something that might have been scripted by an adoring UNC student, although all in all it’s far from being a terrible tale. This reader, but, would prefer to read a self-penned autobiography that contains a few grammatical errors yet retains the voice of the person telling his own tale. Something is lost in translation when a professional writer has to select the words of a theme’s life tale.
Reviewed by Joseph Arellano
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this for my grandchild who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and could have it shipped to her directly, saving postage. It came arrived in about 2 days!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
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