Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
"William Warren "Bill" Bradley" is an American Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame/Hall of Fame basketball player, Rhodes Scholarship/Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic United States Senate/U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2000/the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the United States presidential election, 2000/2000 election.
Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri/St. Louis, and excelled at basketball from an early age. He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America/Boy Scouts, did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association/NBA.
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I believe we need a new kind of leadership, a leadership that puts the people front and center, not the president.
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.
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.
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
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