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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

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 BRADLEY

Country Issues Lot People Race
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Beautiful Softball Teamwork
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
BILL BRADLEY

Done Leadership People Teeth
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Athlete Play Sports Success
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Better Command Defusing Peace Sovereignty Training
Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
BILL BRADLEY

Command Control Giving Up War Working
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

Enough might Track
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
BILL BRADLEY

Collaboration Leader Teamwork
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
BILL BRADLEY

Pain Sports Success
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Basketball Selfish Sports
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
Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
BILL BRADLEY

Als Gore Vision
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Commitment Real Sports
We have to repair that trust … I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
BILL BRADLEY

Deceit Lying Thinking
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEY

Decision Reform Tax
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
BILL BRADLEY

Best Realize Team Teamwork

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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