Phil Jackson Quotes
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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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She comes to attack you every time you come through the door.
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It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.
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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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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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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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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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Milwaukee came back in the second quarter and made a game of it.
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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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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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I told Kobe that's the one area where I'll try not to disclose.
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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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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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That was all well and fine, but there was still some unfinished business, I felt, with the Lakers.
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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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That's not unusual for a player to lose concentration if certain phases of the game go wrong for him. He put some pressure on himself to score. All players want to score as a part of their game. . . . I don't know where his confidence is. You either have it or you don't have it. It doesn't reside in your jockstrap or your brain. His confidence should be in his defense. That's where he plays and rebounds and hustles for us.
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It was a good gesture. It was a peaceful resolution for our fans and L.A.
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I thought it was vindictive. I don't like to see it because he's one of the guys that we nurtured here. He was contributing to us a lot in the championship (run) two years ago.
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I felt at some times Kobe might have taken advantage of our flexibility.
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He's still not 100 percent. He will be established in this organization as a prominent player. I'm going to ask him to step into that level as a responsible player on the floor.
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
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My philosophy is that you don'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 can not teach competitiveness.
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There'll be another resurgence where we get back and play ball well.