Bill Bradley Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

• 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

• Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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

• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Pain

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

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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

• 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 Bradley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

• 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.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Motivation, Games

• 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.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Selfish

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

• 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.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Real, Commitment

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