Nolan Richardson

Nolan Richardson Jr (born December 07 1941). is an American former basketball head coach best known for his tenure at the University of Arkansas. Quotes That was my hope that I could get them to play 40 minutes every place that I've been, There's one thing that was the common denominator of all the teams I coached. You'd better be prepared to play and you'd better be prepared to be in shape because they're going to play you hard. You won't find any team that will play you harder than his team. We used to call that Hog Ball, I called it that because hogs are greedy. I said, we're greedy. We want the ball. When we started one of our workouts one of our players thought we worked too hard, He said 'You come and do this every day?' I said 'Every day for 40 minutes. For 40 minutes in preseason, that's what we do. I said, 'I don't care nothing about a basketball, Fatigue will make cowards of us all and I have been able to prove that to myself. This is what we're trying to accomplish. We're trying to make you a coward. If you're a coward, you won't play. Most guys don't like to run hard. Most guys don't like to be guarded hard. There's a lot of things that they don't like and that's what we've got to give them. Just think, if you can take 40 minutes, can you imagine your opponent who is not used to any of this stuff? We may not have the best team or best of talent, but that doesn't give us the right not to play hard. Every player that came in they talked about it, They talked about the Cleveland deal. That's hard. They talked about getting up at five in the morning. That's hard. Those are the things that you want your guys talking about. That way when they show up to work there's ain't no surprises. We're going to work. How '40 Minutes of Hell' Became an Iconic Arkansas Basketball Brand, June 26 2023 External links Category:Basketball coaches from the United States Category:Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Category:African Americans Category:People from El Paso Category:1941 births Category:Living people