Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
BILL BRADLEYWe realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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I might lose because I wasn’t tall enough; I might lose because I wasn’t fast enough. But I wasn’t going to lose because I wasn’t ready.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
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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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People tell me, “I’m glad you said that.” But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.
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