Official Phil Jackson Quote Thread

WilliamHaven wrote:

Grimjay wrote:Anyone remember Phil said to Zbo about his short neck?

'He's actually 6-11 but God decided not to bless him with a neck'

The local paper, the Times-Picayune, had a story at the top of the front page of the paper, not the front page of the sports section, with Jackson pointing and a headline WHY DOES HE HATE US? So another city had taken the bait.

It may have ended there, Jackson in full-tweak mode, except he was asked about an hour before tipoff and seemed bothered enough to ask if anyone from the paper was among the media scrum. None were present. It could have ended there.

Jackson, though, went on about the water in New Orleans:

"Well, it is the bottom of the country, is it not? And all the sludge comes out of the Plains states and all the irrigation and the insecticides and everything."

A remark about the above quote - This referred to the comment Jackson made before Game 3:

“I refuse to comment on the grounds that I might incriminate myself,” Jackson said of his feelings about New Orleans during a shootaround last Friday before Game 3. Before adding: “Just don’t drink the water.”

Jackson takes to the raised head table in the interview room, and the questions stick to the game, to the series, to the work ahead in the next series. All basketball. He finishes and gets up.
He stops as he is standing.

"And by the way," Jackson says as an aside, "I drank the water today in New Orleans, for those people that are from New Orleans. I did. Swear to God. I didn't mean to. But I drank it."

“Well, it smells better in Oklahoma,” Jackson dead-panned in 2006 when the New Orleans Hornets were cast to Oklahoma City in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “I have to say I miss that mildew smell from New Orleans that permeates the air.”

As I mentioned toward the end of my column about the Lakers’ smarts being one of their unheralded qualities, the Mavericks are one of the few teams with the size that means they can actually match up with and beat the Lakers in a playoff series.

Phil Jackson acknowledged that Thursday night when talking about the Mavericks.

“Dallas does have matchup size,” Jackson said. “They are big, and (Dirk) Nowitzki is a 7-footer and so is their center, Tyson Chandler. Obviously (Brendan) Haywood is a 7-footer. So they have size. But these guys (on the Lakers) have proven their dominance by their size. This is the reason why we are champions.”

Phil Jackson (after losing to the Bobcats) wrote:Is it the playoffs yet?

Phil Jackson on Zach Randolph: 'He's actually 6-11 but God decided not to bless him with a neck'

432J wrote:well i think we can do away with this thread

now that phil isn't coming back and we're stuck with dan tony

Weezy wrote:We could start a 'Antoni quote thread though.

"RUN!"

"Defense? We just need to outscore the other team"

fkmikebrown wrote: