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 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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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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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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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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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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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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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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