Bill Bradley

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

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

Bill Bradley

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

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

All I have are the people.

Bill Bradley

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

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

I believe that basketball, when a certain level of unselfish team play is realized 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 personal impulses.

Bill Bradley

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

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Bill Bradley