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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
Basketball Coach
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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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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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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 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'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
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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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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
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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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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 gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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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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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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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The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
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I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.
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The real value in everything you do is in the details.
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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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