Top 1200 Sports Spirit Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn't normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I'm a sports fan of all sports - college basketball, MLB, NFL - and as a fan, the only sport I feel every week I feel urgency is college football.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

The spirit of St. Louis as I view it from my lens is a spirit of giving.

In Luke ... receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more important to focus on how one lives the Spirit-filled life than on a rigid formula for receiving it.... Receiving the Spirit in the Lucan sense is not a one-time event, but an ongoing way of life.

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit in the student and because it required an awakened spirit in the teachers. Spirit to spirit, genius to genius, soul to soul go the true lessons that help young people become themselves. Ultimately, each person holds the key to the story trying to be lived from within, but first someone else must help unlock the mystery of one’s life.

I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.

If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

There's an energy that I got inspired by from practicing a lot of sports. There's a philosophy or some sort of courage and bravery with sports that I like to adapt to the studio life, especially for touring. It's this courage that's required to keep going on and not let go. Being brave is something I appreciate a lot in people usually.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit.

Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.

The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.

People enjoy watching sports at the weekend and watching motor racing and whatever sports, and Formula One is the number one global platform which is competing regularly - not like the Olympic Games or the World Cup - so the macro case was this is something that we should be part of because it's going to grow, and it does.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.

Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

I am the best sports entertainer in the world. I always hear, 'Sports entertainer? You're a sell-out!' Call me a sell-out if you want. I'm buying in. This is my brand. NXT is mine.

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.