Phil Jackson Quotes
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I expect a cigar, ... Not lit, hopefully.
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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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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.
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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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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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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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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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Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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He played a great game, and they gave him 'Kobe (stinks)' or something at the end. I thought that was really poor sportsmanship, especially for a game as competitive and exciting as that game was, down to the last minute to be decided. I'm sure his demeanor and his poise and his character on the floor are saying lots.
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We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
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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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I told Kobe that's the one area where I'll try not to disclose.
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It was a disappointing loss for us as a basketball team. We couldn't keep them off the free throw line in the fourth quarter. We just didn't have things go our way.
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Your problems never cease. They just change.
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
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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.