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Player Quotes by Phil Jackson
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in…
- I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as…
- Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority…
- 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…
- Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that…
- The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
- A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
More Player Quotes
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. — Ernie Banks
- It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as… — Ernie Banks
- I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team… — Charles Barkley
- I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me. — David Beckham
- The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
- I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em?… — Yogi Berra
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as… — Larry Bird
- Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able… — Larry Bird
- The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson. — Larry Bird
- The best players will play. That's the way it will always be. — Larry Bird