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 BRADLEYThe 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.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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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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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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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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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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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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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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