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 BRADLEYWorking with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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