Nolan Richardson Quotations

I believe very much in winning with defence and I try to get my players to compete hard on defence to win the games.

Basketball is all about decisions and we took the best ones, especially from the third quarter on.

Panama played with their heart. That's why we won, ... Today, my players understood the system I've been trying to teach them.

We used to couldn't play quarterback. The coaches were calling the plays, but we weren't even smart enough to go out there and hand the ball off.

We didn't go there to go out. We didn't go there to go eat. We didn't go to Dallas to do those kinds of things. We went to Dallas to play basketball, and that's what we emphasized.

They've already asked me to come back to Panama, ... I had an old fan from Arkansas call me this weekend and ask me if my appetite (to coach) was wet again after this. I told him that my appetite for that was always wet ... it's just ya'll (in Arkansas) put a stop to it for a while.

They programmed him so hard. God, they wanted him to get to that NBA.

It's a plus. Anytime you've been somewhere and supposedly some of the other teams probably have never played in (that arena), it makes a big difference.

The U.S. beat us pretty good the first game, but that's partly because we flew in at 3 a.m. the night before we played,

Arkansas, as a state, is not that far away. So you can get more fans in there and get you the same atmosphere that say Kentucky has when they play in Atlanta.

In my estimation, he is truly one of the finest young basketball coaches around at this point in time.

I'm interested in a major college coaching job, period, ... I have an agent who's working on finding me a job either in college or in the professional ranks. I said years ago that I want to win another national championship, and the only way I can do that is to be coaching.

I'm very happy, because we played very well and we qualified (for FIBA World Championship 2006),

I'm a Tiger now. Black and gold are my new favorite colors.

I hope I never have to watch that Pop Wright shoot like that again.

I can't believe it, ... The president of Panama told me, 'You have no idea what you've done for our country.' He said people were jumping in the streets.