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Top 25 Bill Bradley Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

— Bill Bradley

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Bill Bradley Quote: “When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.”

2. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.”

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.”

6. “Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.”

9. “Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.”

10. “Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.”

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.”

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.”

14. “We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.”

16. “Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.”

18. “We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.”

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.”

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

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’”

23. “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

Bill Bradley Quote: “How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.”

24. “How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that’s unfortunate.”

25. “I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that’s unfortunate.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “When the playing is over, one can sense that one’s youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.”

26. “When the playing is over, one can sense that one’s youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.”

— Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley Quote: “The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.”

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

— Bill Bradley

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