Hard Work
A Life on and Off the Court
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Roy Williams writes about his professional and personal life in this memoir about how he found his way to the Hall of Fame as the men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas.
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Men's basketball coach Roy Williams delivers an earnest account of his professional and personal life. Raised by his saintly single mother after the family was abandoned by his alcoholic father, he established himself as a UNC junior varsity player before coaching high school and then college basketball at the University of Kansas (1988-2003) and at the University of North Carolina (2003-present). The on-court intensity that characterizes his coaching runs through these pages, along
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