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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

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
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
BILL BRADLEY

Creativity Imagination Intuition
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Beautiful Softball Teamwork
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
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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
BILL BRADLEY

Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Basketball Selfish 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.
BILL BRADLEY

Basketball Keys Nba
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Boys Country Giving
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Assumption Cities Country Like
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Better Command Defusing Peace Sovereignty Training
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Athlete Play Sports Success
Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
BILL BRADLEY

Als Gore Vision
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
BILL BRADLEY

Baseball Basketball Sports
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEY

Decision Reform Tax
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

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