Q&A With Roy Williams
Posted Jun 2, 2006
"You have to have ability, but you better have character with that or you have nothing. An elementary teacher in Wichita once told me she wished I would put academics above everything. I said, ‘No maam, because you can be a 4.0 student and a pain in the rear end.’ If that’s the case I want him to be a pain in somebody else’s rear end, not mine. So we have to look for ability, but in my opinion you can’t win without good kids. Character is extremely high for us."
(Lawrence Journal-World)
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