Phil Jackson Quotes on Success (6 Quotes)

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 great. But it's all about those teams that won it, ... I've got a mentor in assistant coach Tex Winter. He says, 'You're only a success at the time you perform a successful task. After that, you can't get a cup of coffee on it.'

Give him a ready-made title contender, let him add water, mix it up and toss it into the oven, and out comes a championship trophy. People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, ... This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

We definitely want to make the playoffs -- that's a goal for us. We won't know how far we can go in the playoffs for a long time. To make the playoffs is a goal we think we can accomplish. This is going to be a process. You're not going to see a finished product for a while.

Our particular team right now is not a team that does well resting on any kind of sense of accomplishment. We still have to drive ourselves and drive the team forward.

I've never had a team that I felt couldn't win a championship. There could be a coach who could've taken this same team and maybe done better than I have, but I think the growth of the group is what I'm after, not winning.