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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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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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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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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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Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
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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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The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
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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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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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The real value in everything you do is in the details.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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