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 BRADLEYAl Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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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When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
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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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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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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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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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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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Working with the UN’s diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
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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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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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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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