Bill Bradley

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

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

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

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.

All I have are the people.

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

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.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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

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.

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.

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

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.

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

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