Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
BILL BRADLEYA 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.
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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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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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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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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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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The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain.
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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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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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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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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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