William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1979-1997). He ran for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore. Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a small town 45 miles (72 km) south of St. Louis. He excelled at basketball from an early age. He did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He won a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965, when Princeton finished third in the NCAA Tournament. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). May these Bill Bradley Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “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.” Bill Bradley
2. “Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.” Bill Bradley
3. “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.” Bill Bradley
4. “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
5. “The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.” Bill Bradley
6. “Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly.” Bill Bradley
7. “There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.” Bill Bradley
8. “Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.” Bill Bradley
9. “Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.” Bill Bradley
10. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” Bill Bradley
11. “When I played the game, you played with your feet. And the game was about finesse. Movement.” Bill Bradley
12. “Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.” Bill Bradley
13. “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
14. “Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.” Bill Bradley
15. “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
16. “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
17. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley
18. “Living life intensely has a momentum and exhilaration of its own.” Bill Bradley
19. “When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.” Bill Bradley
20. “By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.” Bill Bradley
21. “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.” Bill Bradley
22. “I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.” Bill Bradley
23. “Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I’ve been, for one thing.” Bill Bradley
24. “work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.” Bill Bradley
25. “If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.” Bill Bradley
26. “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
27. “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
28. “I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.” Bill Bradley
29. “We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.” Bill Bradley
30. “I’ve never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.” Bill Bradley
31. “I’m somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, ‘You sound like Walt Whitman.’ Well, I’ll take that comparison.” Bill Bradley
32. “Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.” Bill Bradley
33. “”Thinking about events you have experienced, and developing perspective about them, in some way completes, and finding words to express them gives perspective and bring about a sense of closure.” Bill Bradley
34. “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
35. “I never allowed other people’s expectations to determine whatever course I took.” Bill Bradley
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