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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

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
BILL BRADLEY

Assume Expectations Hope Speech
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
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
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Criticize Games Motivation Sports
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
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
BILL BRADLEY

Decision Reform Tax
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
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
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
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Assumption Cities Country Like
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.
BILL BRADLEY

Inspirational Motivational Thinking
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
BILL BRADLEY

Best Realize Team 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.
BILL BRADLEY

Commitment Real Sports
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
BILL BRADLEY

Pain Sports Success
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
BILL BRADLEY

Collaboration Leader Teamwork
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
BILL BRADLEY

Atheism Only Practice Religious

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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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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