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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.

Bill Bradley

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
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
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
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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Baseball Basketball Sports
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
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Decision Reform Tax
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
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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Country Issues Lot People Race
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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

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