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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.

Phil Jackson

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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 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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Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.
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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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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 real value in everything you do is in the details.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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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. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.
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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 lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team
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Not everyone has a purpose.
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Basketball is sharing.
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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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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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