Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
BILL BRADLEYWhen 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.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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