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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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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.
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
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All I have are the people.
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
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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.
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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.