Phil Jackson Quotes
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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.
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It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.
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We figured no one would break it for another 30 years, just like it took for the Lakers' record to be broken. So, it is surprising Detroit is pushing for it.
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Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
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Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.
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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
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We can't feel sorry for ourselves. That's the great thing about basketball, you have to go out there and play another game. We're just going to have to bounce back.
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They could still be playing for all I know.
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We got in a situation where we were waiting for Kobe is hand to get hot. We started trying to force it in to him and that hurt us. Kobe had a hard time chasing Dixon around screens.
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There's a process teams go through to put themselves in a competitive place. And when they get to that position, I felt like if they want me to coach that team, I'd have to listen to them, because of my connections in New York and my connections as a Knick.
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Your problems never cease. They just change.
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We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
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It was a good gesture. It was a peaceful resolution for our fans and L.A.
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He was unusual in the fact that he was also an excellent (math) teacher. In those days, most coaches taught P.E.
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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This goes along with who we are as a society. Somebody does something exceptional, people are looking for ways to denigrate them.
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No. He's not. He doesn't have the base.
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Houston had some injuries to veterans and we were able to overwhelm them in the second half.
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There's one thing that we've had success doing, and that's keeping (the Suns) out of their running game, their full-out, 60 mph running game that is difficult for us to keep up, difficult for the whole league to keep up with.
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I didn't want to create an impediment in that situation. I wanted him to be productive. But it didn't seem to be working in that direction. I think more attention was better than less.
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I think some of our guys hit a little bit of a wall here. We talked a lot about that ... This is a heavy time to play basketball. You've really got to take care of yourself. I had a couple of guys fighting through things out there, under-the-weather type of things. They just couldn't get themselves going.
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I'm going to address the team and try to set down some parameters as to how we're going to deal with it, ... This is something now that we seriously have to take as another type of an issue, where there's a certain sense of where our privacy lies and where the boundaries lie, that we're going to have to address and we're going to have to be serious about it.