Phil Jackson Quotes

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

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• I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.

  

  LaToya London
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Win

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Future

• The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Growth
  • Golf

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Creative
  • Plan

• I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Different
  • Art

• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Words

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• I was a horrible student.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Student
  • Horrible

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Job
  • Success
  • Road

• People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Thinking
  • War

• Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Best
  • Needs

• Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

  

  Khoudia Diop

• Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Problem

• Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Team
  • Football