Bill Bradley

Quotes by Bill Bradley

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Basketball player and politician · American · 1943

American basketball player and politician (born 1943)

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“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”

“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“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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“Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinterested away-from-home crowd while warming up. This curious event occurred last March, just before ...”
— John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
basketball hard-work practice

“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to ...”
— John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
basketball hard-work

“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.”
— Bill Bradley
Great Achieving Obstacles

“The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.”
— Bill Bradley
Defeat Taste Own

“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”
— Bill Bradley
Potential People Better

“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'”
— Bill Bradley
Wisdom Escape Saying

“Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.”
— Bill Bradley
Money Trying Basketball

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
— Bill Bradley
Persistence Path Ambition

“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.”
— Bill Bradley
Time Mountains Forest

“Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”
— Bill Bradley
sport