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

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

Bill Bradley

#Sports Quotes #Taste Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.”
“There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?”
“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”
“We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.”
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
“Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...”
“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”
“If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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