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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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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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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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The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
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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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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.
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The real value in everything you do is in the details. I just like that quote. A very similar way to say the same thing. If you're washing dishes you pay attention to washing dishes. If you're driving a car, you're paying attention to driving the car.
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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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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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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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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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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 gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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