Phil Jackson Came Quotations

I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.

It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.

In the second half we came out and played well offensively and defensively.

That was something to behold -- it was another level. At halftime we were disturbed about the way we were playing. We came out, and Kobe just found a way to do everything.

I think all our players were encouraged by the effort, and thought we had the right idea. Our execution came up a little bit short.

I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.

He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.

The idea when we came here was we weren't going to let this game get by us.

I thought we played in spurts tonight. We came out with a little more energy in the third quarter, compared to our last two games, which helped a lot.

Milwaukee came back in the second quarter and made a game of it.

They came out to play Kobe really tough, a little bit harder I think than the referees wanted to see happen. I think in the process of coming out to play hard they crossed the line a little bit.

We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.

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.

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.