Phil Jackson Quotes
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What moves me is watching young men bond together and tap into the magic that arises when they focus with their whole heart and soul on something greater than themselves. Once you've experienced that, it's something you never forget.
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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
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I think, obviously, coming back and working with this organization is a remarkable turnaround.
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I think they felt intimidated at some point in this playoff. ...Our big guys have been effective. ... They just wanted to make a stand and make a statement.
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They really crowded Shaq well and did not give him a good look in the lane. He struggled to find a position in the lane all night.
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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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When it doesn't produce wins, that's the fine line. And then players . . . also have to feel like they're a part of it. If they are, then they play at a better level.
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We've had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we've been talking about as a group - we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it. We've shown signs of this - the Houston game at the end of the road trip.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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When Stephen got hurt...it was either a motivating force for the Pacers to get their run, but at the same time he was turning the ball over a lot, so he may have been an asset by default.
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You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.
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I'm going to copyright myself so he can have that distinction, sell them off.
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I was disappointed with our fourth-quarter beginning. We put ourselves in good position, then didn't score for three minutes. We gave it away.
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I am pleased with Kobe and how he controlled the offense. We had people open because they were doubling him and that got some people open and we found them.
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For Kobe, it's about on the court, ... It's about re-establishing his dominance of the game.
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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.
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I was very disappointed with the road trip. We had players injured and our team was not competing as hard as it could. The injuries hurt our team morale.
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I didn't get any satisfaction from their reasoning.
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It was quite an exhibition for three quarters Kobe put on. I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.