Bill Bradley Quotes

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

It has been my purpose, since I have been placed in my present position, to make no speeches.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

When everything goes well, they say good things about the manager and when something is wrong it is normal as well the manager gets pressure.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.