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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.

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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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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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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The strength of the team lies within the individual. And the strength of the individual lies within the team
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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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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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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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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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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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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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