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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Bill Bradley

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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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Collaboration Leader Teamwork
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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Best Realize Team Teamwork
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Pain Sports Success
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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Hate Long Love Time
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Decision Reform Tax
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
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 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
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
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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Inspirational Motivational Thinking
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
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
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

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