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.

    Team   Winning   Player  
  • 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.

  • I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

  • Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

  • 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.

  • Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

    "Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior: Spiritual Lessons as a Hardwood Warrior". Book by Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty, 1995.
  • I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

  • 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.

    Spiritual   Moving   Play  
    "Phil Jackson talks Lakers, his future, Dwight Howard, more". Interview with Jack McCallum, www.si.com. February 19, 2013.
  • 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.

  • No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

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Phil Jackson

  • Born: September 17, 1945
  • Occupation: Basketball Coach