Bill Bradley Quotes


"Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Leaders)

"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
(Related: Imagination, Wisdom, Saying)

"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
(Related: Love, Time, Hate, Leaders)

"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
(Related: Time, Environment, Mountains, Quiet)

"Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one."
- Bill Bradley
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Success, Ambition, Persistence)

"Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Vision)

"All I have are the people."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: People)

"The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Experience, Defeat, Richness, Taste)

"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Pain)

"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Money, Politics, Basketball, Trying)

"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Expectations, Will)

"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Sports, Athletes, Difficulty, Metaphor, Obstacles, Overcoming)

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Leadership, People, Potential)