Bill Bradley Quotes

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

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

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.

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.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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

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

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.

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

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

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

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

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.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

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

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

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.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.

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.

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.

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.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.