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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

An article of the democratic faith is that greatness lies in each person.

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The point of the game is not how well the individual does but whether the team wins. That is the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for group success.

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Victory is fraught with as much danger as glory. Victory has very narrow meanings and, if exaggerated or misused, can become a destructive force. The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

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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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Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley

Born: July 28, 1943 (age 82)

Bio: William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American former professional basketball player and politician. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

Known for:

We Can All Do Better (2012)
Life on the run (1976)
The New American Story (2007)
Time present, time past (1996)

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