Bill Bradley Quotes about Sports

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When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

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

Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bill Bradley

Basketball, Sports, Baseball

Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.216, RosettaBooks

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

Bill Bradley

Sports, Sunset, Winning

Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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

Basketball, Sports, Selfish

Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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

Bill Bradley

Motivational, Success, Sports

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

Bill Bradley

Success, Sports, Athlete

Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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

Bill Bradley

Success, Sports, Pain

A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

Bill Bradley

Sports, Motivation, Games

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

Sports, Real, Commitment