When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
BILL BRADLEYWhen you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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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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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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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
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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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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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