Phil Jackson Quotes
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That doesn't matter to me about those things, ... They are pathetic. It was a poor offensive game. We didn't move the ball right. We didn't shoot the ball right. But those things, they'll happen. ... Those are just numbers.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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I don't feel like we missed an opportunity. We'll have better opportunities as we go along. We're figuring out how to play against them.
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That was something to behold. It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before.
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Ludicrous is probably the best word I could think of.
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They played Kobe tough and a little harder than the refs wanted to see.
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You learn about winning at a different level. College is a much different level than the professional game. It's exciting and it's high energy. But as we know, there's very few that come and play in this game.
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I've seen some remarkable games but I've never seen anything like that before. It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team. It was not exactly the way you want to win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do it. We rode the hot the hand.
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You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.
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He's moved on. It's time for the fans to move on.
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
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I didn't think he had good legs. He told me in the fourth quarter he was going to get hot, that he felt like he was getting in his rhythm, and he hit in a few in the fourth quarter. But, he was really bothered by Bell. He did a great job on him.
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My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.
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That's not what basketball is about. Basketball is about playing as a team and finding a functioning level.
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I think it's a matter of trust, a matter of rebuilding the trust that we had, ... And yes, I have talked to Kobe; he actually called me this morning to congratulate me on the job. And I felt confident that he's confident that we can go forward.
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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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Kobe had to take some heat for that, as if he was the one who manufactured that (O'Neal) trade. All those things were made to look like there was a scapegoat in this situation, and there wasn't.
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I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.
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I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
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It was designed for him (Bryant) to catch the ball and find what he could find available. I have to give him credit that he can shoot that shot. I have to allow his judgment to be so he felt like he could do that at the time. I wanted him to penetrate.
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That's basically a lot of the belief I have. Establishing dominance and taking responsibility for it.
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We played about as well as we played all season. They had back-to-back games like we did, but you could see their legs getting tired. I had a suspicion that we could win this game tonight, but they played above my expectations.