When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
BILL BRADLEYHow 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.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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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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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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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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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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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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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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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.
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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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