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Phil Jackson
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 17
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Deer Lodge
Montana
Philip Douglas Phil Jackson
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The Zen Master
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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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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
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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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The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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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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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 played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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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.
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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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Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
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Basketball is sharing.
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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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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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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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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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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 ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
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