the last dance

"The more attached I become to something, as the Buddhists believe, the more I set myself up for misery, the more I become needy. June, my ex-wife, used to tell me I couldn't enjoy winning, but that wasn't true. I certainly did enjoy winning, except that like everything else in life, the feeling doesn't last. Everything decays. Tex, who is definitely no Buddhist, has a saying I've grown to love: "You are only a success at the moment that you do a successful act." You can't be a success the next moment because you have already moved on to do something else, even if it's accepting the award for the successful moment that just passed. That is why I've always told my players the glorification comes from the journey, not the outcome." -- Phil Jackson, The Last Season, p. 111-112