There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
BILL BRADLEYThe 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.
More Bill Bradley Quotes
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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 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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Al Gore clearly has the vision… it’s a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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