Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
“Only one thing is inarguable: without a body of convictions, life becomes a series of events in futile pursuit of utopia on earth, or… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
