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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

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
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
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.
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Commitment Real Sports
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
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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Creativity Imagination Intuition
Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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Command Control Giving Up War Working
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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Done Leadership People Teeth
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
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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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
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
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
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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Boys Country Giving
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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Collaboration Leader Teamwork
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

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