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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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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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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 ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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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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 sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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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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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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I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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I know what it takes to be a coach. I've gone through that. I think I came up short my last season. Lots of things were happening physically to me, and emotionally, perhaps mentally, too. I thought it was time to tend to more important things, like health and like family. I still enjoy that, and I don't think I have any need to go back to coach.
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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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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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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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