Roy H. Williams Quotations

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we’re already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

We are looking forward to having him be part of our team next year.

There are a lot of Cowboy fans everywhere.

We needed a couple of offensive rebounds, we needed a couple of stops, and we didn't get it.

When Tyler gets the ball in a crowd, he's still strong enough to get the shot up on the board. He still has enough of a lively body to get it if he misses.

So many conventions and business meetings are going to go to other cities next year. Many people are going to be concerned about coming here and go elsewhere for a while, ... But we're ready.

Mike still needs more balls, more catches, more hits. You don't get hit at all in practice and he hasn't gotten hit much in games. You've got to get used to the bumps and bruises on your wrists, your legs.

My entire life, I dreamed of playing there. I dreamed of coaching there. I don't think anybody loves that basketball program like I love it.

No, I'd just rather get hit with pads on.

Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other night. I thought we were really active defensively in the first half. If we had been flying around and having that intensity last Wednesday, the outcome would have been a lot better.

Needless to say, James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or emotional. They were just businesslike.

My scouting report on myself is: 'Can be great. Needs to get better overall.'

Nobody probably thought they could beat Michigan State and North Carolina back-to-back. They played with a great purpose and a great passion. (Coming in) I was scared to death, to be honest with you. In saying all that, I still thought we were going to win the game.

I don't feel like everybody's buying into Parcells' system. I think we have some individual players and hopefully we'll get rid of those guys.

I don't know that it's much of a break when you're playing Arizona. You can say this gets you away from the ACC wars. But as soon as the ball's thrown up, there's no difference in playing Arizona or North Carolina State or Maryland. It's big-time basketball.

Basically, Tyler's just worn out. I think he's completely spent.

I feel very fortunate, to say the least. A first-round game is always difficult, particularly if you've got a team that hasn't been through it because they don't know what it's like.

For such a little guy, he's a big load, there's no question about that, ... I can't think of anybody that pushes it any faster than he does. He comes at you so hard that you have to give ground so much, at some point, you have to draw a line and say, 'I can't continue to give ground or I'll be in the bleachers.'

He has tremendous footwork. He has been called for walking about two times this year and we watched it on tape and neither one of them were walks. He has great fundamentals of keeping his foot down and then he is a powerful youngster.

He looked down, just like any person would when you get something taken away from you, especially that gives you a good paycheck,

We talked about this (entering the draft) as early as January and Rashad was able to maintain his focus throughout the season. I think he will be remembered as a player who helped us win a national championship and as a nice young man.

He's a load. He takes the ball to the basket. He jumps out of the gym. He goes to the backboards. He doesn't take no for an answer.

When he comes back, he's going to come back like a warrior,

He did not say anything about it. Nobody knew that he went out to Jersey today, and to bury his brother. We love Coach Parcells, and we'll always have his back.

You have to finish the job. I've never been one to be big on moral victories.

James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just businesslike, and they got their team into what they wanted to do.

I take all the blame for that. I didn't get the call and missed the play.

I threw my coat because the guys were hollering at each other and I don't allow that. One of them was scolding the other for not making a pass and we kind of lost our poise after that.

I thought a ball was going out of bounds, and my thought process was not to hit the guy because the ball was out of bounds,'' Brown said.

I will be surprised to see that because I think he's got a chance to play basketball for a long time. So unless he wants to try football at 35 or something like that ...

I think Florida State's in the tournament - at 9-7 in the ACC, if that's not good enough, then we need to rethink some things.

I think Florida State's in the tournament -- at 9-7 in the ACC, if that's not good enough, then we need to rethink some things.

Our club has just continued to improve throughout the last month. ... I do think if we can come close to playing to our potential, there are some more things this team can do.

That was a fun basketball game. If you didn't care who won, you had to enjoy that. The problem is we care deeply whether you win or lose. But I'm really proud of my team.

That's the lure of this tournament. It's bad for coaches -- what Lute feels right now is terrible. But it's great for the fans.

You always want two quarterbacks. Not saying there's anything wrong with Dan, but putting a rookie in against, say, Chicago, Green Bay or Carolina with Julius Peppers coming around the end, you're going to think about it.

We fought together as a team. We pulled out a win. It was tough. It's a team sport. When your offense needs help, your defense has to have their back. And we did that today.

Well, Mike looks like a rookie. I say that because I was one myself not too long ago. I tell him to just wait 365 days and see how you feel. It's a world of difference.

You didn't use to see that. They think they can, anyway.

You look at those pictures and start thinking about the people and talking about how many bodies they might find and things like that. It makes that athletic world very, very, very small.

We saw a big-time basketball team play in a tough environment. Our guys in the second half, I love how hard we competed. ... It seemed like every time we'd get right there where I thought we could get over the hump, but we couldn't get a stop.

We are ecstatic to be playing. It was a goal of ours to make the NCAA tournament at the start of the season. We were so inexperienced.

Both touchdowns came on the same play. I don't know what happened. I just saw Moss blazing down the seam.

You can't do that in college basketball and consistently win games. I don't like it.

The other guys covered up, but I know one thing -- I'm a lot more comfortable when David is out there.

You have to understand that we've played 30 games this year. We made some silly mistakes. You can't make those mistakes at this point.

Wes is a youngster who is a gym rat. He loves to work out and is always working on his game, always working on his body. I think he's pushed himself as close to the max as anybody I've coached in a long, long time.

You'd rather have talent than anything. Experience would be second. If you could pick the best, it would be experience and talent. . . . I think that's what we have.

Each letter of the alphabet represents a phoneme, a tiny sound that joins with other tiny sounds to make the more complex sounds we call words.

There's more coaching. He says 2 yards outside the number, he means 2 yards. Not a yard and a half. That's different that what I'm used to.

It would have worked out great. Nobody would have been able to double team Tyler because Sean would have killed them, and no would have been able to double team Sean because we would have Tyler. We would have two power forwards and been able to play David (Noel) at small forward.

I've said all year long that Virginia Tech is one of three or four best teams in the league. I really believe that, and I said that before they were a 45-footer away from beating Duke at Duke. ... I think they're an NCAA Tournament team at the end of the year, and I strongly believe that.

Sometimes you've just got to give credit to the other team. It's not always 'North Carolina didn't do this' or 'North Carolina didn't do that.' Sometimes you just give credit to the other team, and I feel that way today.

Quentin had a tough night, but I still believe in him and still believe that he's going to be able to do some good things for us. He's got to put that behind him.

Coleman Collins is one of my favorite players in the league. I think we feel very fortunate to get only five shots out of him tonight.

As a community, we believe that here is our chance to show the NBA, viewers, the world that we are a market that can support a professional team,

That play by Aaron gave us a chance to get our defense set and at least have a chance to guard them.

That part is mind-boggling, beyond your wildest dreams. I thought Tyler would be a major force for us. In my mind, he would be a starter from day 1, and he would be extremely important from Day 1.

That's what people want the tournament to be -- unpredictable,

You're eight miles away. You use the same airports, recruit the same kids, there's a great deal of interest just because of the location.

A lot of guys, when certain things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster didn't do it. He refocused again, played even harder and did an even better job of being a leader for us.

They (Miami) held their poise. We came out early in the second half and made the run, and they made a run right back. We contributed to that with three turnovers out of four possessions. I thought Hite, Diaz and Anthony (Harris) were sensational. They made shots - but they always make shots. It's nothing unusual.

They got every loose ball. They were smarter. They were coached better.

At least it gave me a chance to jump on the five he started.

The more you invest, the more you can take out of something, whether it's the stock market or investing more interest and enthusiasm in a basketball game. When you leave, you should feel like you've been part of it.

It was extremely intense when I left and gets a great deal of attention around the country. Players enjoyed it and I think that's the way it still is today. You've had some really good games and I hope (Tuesday) is one of those as well.

It was the most frustrating half I've ever coached. And about the exact opposite in the second half.

It was a total breakdown for us at both ends of the court.

It was a silly play. Bobby probably shouldn't have given him the ball. He's 2-for-3. I'll let him shoot three 3-pointers every year if he makes two of them.