Quotes By Bill Bradley

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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

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

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

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.

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

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

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

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

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

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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.

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