Bill Bradley Quotes
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When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.
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Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.
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Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
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How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.
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When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
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Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
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We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
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Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
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Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
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Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.
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A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
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The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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