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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.

Phil Jackson

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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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 ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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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The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team
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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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The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
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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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I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.
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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'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
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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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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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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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