Clint Dempsey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.
-- Clint Dempsey

#Sports #Play #Skills
The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
-- Clint Dempsey

#Games #Bars #Gains
God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him. I found that questioning Him and searching for answers through Scripture helped me grow and gave me direction. Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.
-- Clint Dempsey

#Giving #Faithful #Desire
All you can do is play how you know how to play.
-- Clint Dempsey

#Play #Know How #Knows

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
You always catch the wrong players.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

Clint Dempsey famous quotes

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