Phil Jackson Quotes
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The toilets are flushing great in the locker room.
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We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
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My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.
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Wow, how can you lose a ball game like that. I just don't understand sometimes the capabilities of this team to disappoint.
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He is coming up with some key plays for us. And at the offensive end, he is doing things that help him finish at the basket. When a player plays extended minutes, you fall into that rhythm. Kwame has set himself up to have this sort of success.
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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
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Probably would have been sitting on the bench with Connecticut. Who knows? That's just hypothetical stuff you can't even project. But it certainly is a talented team. The growth that he has had here, I think, has been a beneficial factor for him in his overall game.
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If you were there at the game, I think everybody understands how we won. He got into a rhythm - it was just a landslide.
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They still have the defense as their calling card, but they have released and liberated the offense.
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I'll just say that hopefully they've drained the mud out of the building, and the termites aren't going to eat the buildings away in between the time we get down there. They made a good judgment probably to get this back in, and that's the important thing about it.
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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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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.
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He plays beyond pain a lot of times. He'll be fresh-legged.
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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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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Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.
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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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That's what happens when a team plays with some desperation.
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The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team.
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They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. They got it righted and played good defense to get back in the game. I knew that Kobe would find a way out there to help us win.
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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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My philosophy is that you can'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 cannot teach competitiveness.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.