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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.

Bill Bradley

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.
BILL BRADLEY

Hate Long Love Time
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Criticize Games Motivation Sports
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
BILL BRADLEY

Baseball Basketball Sports
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
BILL BRADLEY

Motivational Sports Success
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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Athlete Play Sports Success
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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Atheism Only Practice Religious
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
BILL BRADLEY

Assume Expectations Hope Speech
We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
BILL BRADLEY

Deceit Lying Thinking
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Commitment Real Sports
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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Basketball Selfish Sports
Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
BILL BRADLEY

Command Control Giving Up War Working
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Enough might Track
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
BILL BRADLEY

Best Realize Team Teamwork
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
BILL BRADLEY

Inspirational Motivational Thinking
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEY

Decision Reform Tax
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
BILL BRADLEY

Done Leadership People Teeth

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