"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."

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

Bill Bradley

#Basketball Quotes #Sports Quotes #Selfish Quotes

“You're so good at helping everybody else, I think you're in danger of leaving yourself out of your own life.”
“I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where itâ€™sâ€¦ thereâ€™s good sides and thereâ€™s bad sidesâ€¦IÂ wouldn'tÂ kind of turn the clock back and takeÂ another direction.”
“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?”
“The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.”
“I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.”
“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”
“The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.”
“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.”

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