Phil Jackson Quotes
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It was a good gesture. It was a peaceful resolution for our fans and L.A.
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Ludicrous is probably the best word I could think of.
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The league is known for its vindictiveness. But we didn't anticipate a suspension.
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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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I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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He's moved on. It's time for the fans to move on.
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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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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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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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You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
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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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They came out to play Kobe really tough, a little bit harder I think than the referees wanted to see happen. I think in the process of coming out to play hard they crossed the line a little bit.
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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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Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.
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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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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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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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There's still a fan core out there that's not going to let him off the hook. They're not going to give him the grace and the ability to get himself off the hook and into the fans' favor.
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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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He had a so-so game. He played adequately.... Everybody's a work in progress right now.
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I was quite surprised. As far as things happening locally, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me.