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Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court |  | Authors: Roy Williams, Tim Crothers
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1565129598
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9781565129597
ASIN: 1565129598
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
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Product Description
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 story 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 neighbor'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 to go to college, Williams wound up at the University of North Carolina with the dream of becoming 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 plain 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 coaching success, sharing his story because he believes that anyone can be inspired by its message: hard work really can make dreams come true.
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 Roy ROCKS! July 18, 2010
Loni Hackworth (St. George, Utah)
I'm not a sports fan. I didn't even know who Roy Williams was. BUt, I picked the book because I was trying out our library's new ebooks section. And, I love nonfiction. So, that's how the book was selected. What a fortuitous find. This book is fantastic. I love Roy's work ethic, his humility, his love of his wife and children, his interest in his students, and cares about his team's character. Roy had a tremendous disadvantage with the father he had, yet he was a terrific father to his own children and to his teams. I admire this coach a great deal, so when the NCAA tournmanet rolls around next year, I'll be rooting for NC and Roy Walker.
 Hard Work was reading it April 11, 2010
L. Sandlin (NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, I am a Tar Heel fan, Roy Williams is a wonderful head coach. I think that is his best work. I learned a lot from this book, I certainly learned Carolina should never have let him leave the campus after the first offer without a signed contract. He is very indecisive when it comes to changing jobs & really keeps schools & NBA teams waiting. I doubt he gets asked again...okay by UNC, I'm sure.
He thought the 2009 team was hard work, well, I wonder what he would say about the 2010 team, I think he should have waited another year to write Hard Work.
You have to admire him for having a dream, a goal and doing all it took to make it happen...and be a success at it and apparently at being a good husband and father, as well as son.
But the book is not a good read, it has details about recruiting that only a coach or asst coach would care about...there are way too many details about this player and that player and how much Roy loves them. Hey, it is very apparent that Roy loves everyone. Great... I'm for that, but he can't write, or tell and the writer couldn't write or make it interesting. I listened to every word cause I am a Tar Heel...but it was not easy. It was hard work.
Hard Work March 17, 2010
R. Michelle Hammond (Chadbourn, NC USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Such an inspiring story from Roy Williams. He deserves all the respect he receives because he has defiantly earned it.
Great story March 16, 2010
Brian Conlin
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only problem with this book was that I couldn't put it down. I'm not even a UNC basketball fan.
Roy Williams' book March 8, 2010
Aprille G. Sweatt (Rockingham, North Carolina United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
EXCELLENT book! I bought one for my daughter and her friend - both UNC basketball wannabes! I enjoyed reading the book myself! A+++++
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