#174: Coach Phil Jackson: An overview of coaching as a “serious and solemn matter”

Coach Jackson delivered some foundational comments on the importance of coaching.

1. When he first started coaching: “I realized that I had scant knowledge.”
2. “As a coach, I learned that you had to set up a sequence early on when the people gathered together to tell them what was going to happen and how this was going to transpire.”
3. “Until an athlete goes through the actual motion and activity, it’s not embedded in their body.”
4. A Lakers player saying that practice, “Feels like being back in the 7th grade…I like it.”
5. Two instrumental coaches in Coach Jackson’s life: a high school football coach who was a former Marine and a high school basketball coach who was a Lutheran deacon. "The two of the were drastically different...Both of them had great impressions in my life.”
6. “A coach is something that lasts a lifetime. This is an opportunity to make a change in people’s lives and you have to approach it with that knowledge. You have to prepare yourself for that activity."
7. “You have to master the details."