Phil Jackson Quotes About Coaching
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Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
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Basketball is sharing.
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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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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
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Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
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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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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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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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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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