Elana Meyers Quotes

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

We have to be ready to share our faith in Christ.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

Business and investing are team sports.

I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may become Christians and then live under the Lordship of Christ in the whole spectrum of life.

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

Russia has got to be the team to beat, in my opinion. When they are playing together as a team, they are tough to beat.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.