Phil Jackson Quotes
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Some of our players didn't look ready to play.
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
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It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know that.
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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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It was awful. He gave us a terrible game. He just didn't give us any productive minutes at all.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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I'm sure he's going to juice up, as far as playing against Kobe.
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There's never been anything like this in my tenure.
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Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that.
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I felt like they were frustrated and they have a reason to be frustrated. Things didn't happen for them and it's a frustrating thing for these young kids.
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We couldn't do anything better that would make this franchise better.
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Make your work your play and your play your work.
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As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.
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I thought we had a really good defensive first half. We found momentum at the beginning of the second quarter and established a lead.
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I think he must have some type of injury.
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I've talked to other players that were there, but that was played in like complete silence. I guess there was a radio announcer there, but there was nothing else that you could even document it. People don't even know if they had a backboard or nets.
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We carried out our end of the bargain.
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He's been under five systems in as many years, ... I expect it's going to take some time.
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It's not going to be about Kobe getting 45 points a night. It's going to be about how are we going to use all the talents to do what we have to do to take a team apart.
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It's nice to be back in this gray, dingy hallway.
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This one is certainly a challenge. It's an enjoyable one and one without a whole lot of pressure on me. The boss' daughter told me if things don't work right, I can take a day off.
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Kareem met these guys at the door and he said, 'That effort wins on Wednesday (in Game 2).' He was very supportive. I think they heard that -- that if they give that kind of effort again, they can win.
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When you have guys like Dixon and Blake basically have career nights, that really sets you on the edge as a team. We didn't come out with the intent to play defense tonight.
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The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.