A biography for Phil Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.”
“My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.”
“I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
“I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.”
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
“I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.”
“My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.”
“For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.”