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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.

Bill Bradley

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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Criticize Games Motivation Sports
Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Als Gore Vision
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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Enough might Track
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
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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Baseball Basketball Sports
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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Better Command Defusing Peace Sovereignty Training
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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Motivational Sports Success
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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Deceit Lying Thinking
The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That’s the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
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Beautiful Softball Teamwork
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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Assumption Cities Country Like
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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Hard Work Inspirational Sports
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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Basketball Keys Nba
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Decision Reform Tax
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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Assume Expectations Hope Speech
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Pain Sports Success

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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