Phil Jackson Quotes
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We remind our players that this is something that was a special night in a heated situation but it's not going to be a steady diet for us. The onus on Kobe is to stay inside the team offense. The onus on the players is to pick it up a little bit better.
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I told Kobe that's the one area where I'll try not to disclose.
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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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We slept almost all the way through the third quarter. We're just not able to play a full game.
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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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I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.
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I don't mean to say that as a snide remark toward a certain population in our society, ... But they have a limitation of their attention span, a lot of it probably due to too much rap music going in their ears and coming out their being. So they need to get a focal point that lasts longer than a TV commercial or one short 15-second span.
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You get in that pressure situation where you feel like you have to win at home.
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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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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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He's hired former NBA referees to monitor the game tapes. He sends out a weekly report on the referees. There's some things that Mark has done to turn it a little bit in his favor. That's good.
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That was something to behold. It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before.
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No. He's not. He doesn't have the base.
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People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.
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It was a good gesture. It was a peaceful resolution for our fans and L.A.
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She comes to attack you every time you come through the door.
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It's 1-1. We haven't done anything yet. Now it's time to come home and see if we can't win on our court and get the actual lead in the series.
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Von has a lot of game. He is an aggressive player, but sometimes it is good to have a wild horse out there who can push guys and challenge people.
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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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I've been nudging him gently in the right direction, hopefully, and I think he's ready to turn the corner.
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I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
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Milwaukee came back in the second quarter and made a game of it.
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Teams have streaks, they get on a run, and this is fortunate for us because this team had been dying to do something like this for a couple years now.
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I'm not going to weigh in on that one. I think that water is a little deep. I think that he measures himself against a season. I've always given him credit for that and he knows what the end-goal is. He's got a tremendous amount of pride and I anticipate that's a process that he's going through. He'll be there when playoffs are going and he'll probably be at his peak at that time.