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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.

Bill Bradley

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
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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Collaboration Leader Teamwork
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
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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Atheism Only Practice Religious
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
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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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Beautiful Softball Teamwork
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Pain Sports Success
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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Deceit Lying Thinking
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
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
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
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
BILL BRADLEY

Creativity Imagination Intuition
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
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
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

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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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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