Phil Jackson Sacred Hoops

In the book Sacred Hoops written by Phil Jackson, can typically be described as life relating to basketball spiritually and mentally. At this point Jackson was already ready to retire. He was ready to retire because he realized the game of basketball was slowly changing. The game was changing simply because the players were getting to focused on their ego; players were driven only by money, and they weren’t about working with the team only because they want all the glory for themselves. Jackson claims that joy comes from living in the moment, not constantly always worrying about the past, because if you worry about the past you will lose focus on what is currently happening at this moment. Jackson even states, “the whole adds up to more than
I completely agree with this because life is definitely not always going to be how you want it to be. For instance, when you are going through life and it consists of turns and loops but it will always lead back into a positive point through time. When you’re on this so-called “rollercoaster” it is yourself that decides how thrilling or frightening your life is going to be. An example would be Michael Jordan in high school. During Michael Jordan’s sophomore year in high school he got kicked out the basketball team. This would unfortunately be a “down” for him on his “life rollercoaster”. But little did that coach know he became the best basketball player and athlete on the planet. So while Michael was going “up” on his rollercoaster, I know for sure that the coach definitely regretted his decision from cutting him from the team. This type of motivation should inspire the world to do great things and be the best that they can even though someone is telling you that you can’t do it. In other words never give up on what you love doing. Overall everybody has there ups and downs throughout life and when you are in the down part of life just know that there will be loop that will put you back up top of the