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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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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'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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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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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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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
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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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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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I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
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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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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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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 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 will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Basketball is sharing.
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