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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Phil Jackson
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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
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Philip Douglas Phil Jackson
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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 gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
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The real value in everything you do is in the details.
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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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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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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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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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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 System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Not everyone has a purpose.
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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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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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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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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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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 will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.
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The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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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.
Phil Jackson
