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Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
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You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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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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I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
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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. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.
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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 will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.
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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of 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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He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.
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What moves me is watching young men bond together and tap into the magic that arises when they focus with their whole heart and soul on something greater than themselves. Once you've experienced that, it's something you never forget.
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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
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The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
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If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
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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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