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 BRADLEYLeadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
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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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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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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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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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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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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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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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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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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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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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.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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