Topic > Bill Bradley's Perfection - 530

"In A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley (1965) by John McPhee, Bill Bradley, an All-Star in both academics and small-town athletics from Crystal City, Missouri, commits to Princeton to play basketball. At Princeton Bill shatters basketball records for Princeton, the Ivy League and even the NCAA, earning the title of Rhodes Scholar and eventually becoming a United States Senator Bradley was born with many gifts that helped him in his success; above all, his determination to be the best athlete, his perfectionism that made him believe he could always be better, and his intelligence of the game, allowed him to become the greatest basketball player to ever walk on Princeton's campus as an athlete. Many great athletes are so arrogant and selfish that they think they are too good for others, for the school, and even for the defense, but not Bill Bradley. , in fact, engages in all of these things because of his relentless determination to be the best he could in everything he did. Bill's continued determination manifests itself after a game when he remembers a move someone made ...