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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
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Deer Lodge
Montana
Philip Douglas Phil Jackson
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The Zen Master
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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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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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I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
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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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I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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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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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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Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
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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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Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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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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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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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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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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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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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
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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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Basketball is sharing.
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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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