Bill Bradley Quotes

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• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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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.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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  Positive, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Toni’s Take on Real Estate: The Three ‘P’s You Need" by Toni Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

  Bill Bradley

  Leadership, People, Vision

  "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

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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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  Beautiful, Softball, Teamwork

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.186, RosettaBooks

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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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  America, Issues, Race

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• Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks

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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.

  Bill Bradley

  Track, Might, Enough

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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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  Teamwork, Team, Best Team

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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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.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Keys, Nba

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

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  Teamwork, Leader, Collaboration

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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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  Basketball, Sports, Selfish

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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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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  People, Teeth, Done

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• Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

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  Destiny, People, Special

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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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  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

  Bill Bradley

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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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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  Love, Hate, Long

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• Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

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  Success, Sports, Athlete

  Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

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  Military, Numbers, Long

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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. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

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  Boys, America, Giving

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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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  Lying, Thinking, Deceit

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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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  Creativity, Imagination, Intuition

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• There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

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  Success, Sports, Pain

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