445 Quotes by Phil Jackson

The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.

we'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.

It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team.

We carried out our end of the bargain.

We couldn't stop their second chance points down the stretch. I thought we had a good shot at winning the game. It was well fought.

It's just fun to have Mark in the league. He's easy to tweak.

We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.

It seems like they played really hard against Sacramento, didn't they? That was their other opponent they had an option to play. It would seem like they want to choose us.

Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position,