Phil Jackson Quotes
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I think, obviously, coming back and working with this organization is a remarkable turnaround.
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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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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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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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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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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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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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I didn't get any satisfaction from their reasoning.
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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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I'm going to copyright myself so he can have that distinction, sell them off.
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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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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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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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For Kobe, it's about on the court, ... It's about re-establishing his dominance of the game.
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It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.
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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.
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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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They had a game plan against Kobe that was effective, getting the ball out of his hands.
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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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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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We had a blowout on our hands in the third quarter and we never recovered from that.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.