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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.

Bill Bradley

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
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
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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Collaboration Leader Teamwork
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Pain Sports Success
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 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 like the rough impersonality of New York … Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
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Assumption Cities Country Like
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Decision Reform Tax
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
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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Creativity Imagination Intuition
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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