When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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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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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The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain.
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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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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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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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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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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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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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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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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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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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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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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.
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