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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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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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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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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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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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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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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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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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Basketball is sharing.
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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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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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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 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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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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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
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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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The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
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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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