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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.
Bill Bradley
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Bill Bradley
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 28
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Former U.S. Senator
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Crystal City
Missouri
William Warren Bradley
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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.
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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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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Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
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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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I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.
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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.
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Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.
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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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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.
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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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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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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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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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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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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Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
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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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