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.
BILL BRADLEYA 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.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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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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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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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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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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We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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