Phil Jackson Quotes

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

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

The manager picks the team and the team has got to go out and do its best.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.

If the play-caller has confidence in you, you can feel it on the headset. You can feel it by the way he's calling plays.

We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?

Great coaches help create an environment that makes the players want to be successful and work hard and accomplish goals for their teammates.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

I've had good players in my time. I really have.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

As a player, I always felt confident that if I was caIm, my teammates knew, 'He's going to do something to help us win.' As a coach, my hands are really tied. I got to believe in my players. If they see I'm calm, they'll believe I trust them, which I do.

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

The manager wants to show his tactics, and if I do them perfectly, he'll pick me.