Nolan Richardson Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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