Sapp Quotes & Sayings

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content. — Marvin Sapp

Perhaps they exist in the deepest, darkest part of the ancient caves for good reason: they make fun of someone. Perhaps someone powerful. Perhaps rather than being sacred paintings for ancient religious rituals or to ensure the success of the hunt, they are caricatures, the first political cartoons, hidden because they lampoon the leaders, castigate the powerful, and ridicule the rich. Perhaps they tell one of a timeless story - a love triangle or fear of deadly beasts - for that is what political cartoons are all about. Leveling the playing field. It does — Rick Sapp

A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight. — Kels Adeline Sapp

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question. — Marvin Sapp

This is the truth of the world: you can spend years devoting your time and love to someone. You can take care of them willingly and happily. You can think you know them as well as they know themselves. You can trust them entirely. But no one, absolutely no one, will ever change unless they want to, and some are incapable of change- no matter who they are, or what they meant to you. Broken people will always find a way to justify their selfish ways. There is no such thing as a promise. — Kels Adeline Sapp

The voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian. — Allen Sapp

Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude. — Warren Sapp

I know that touching you will be understanding my fingers for the first time. — Kels Adeline Sapp

Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes. — Kels Adeline Sapp

It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top. — Allen Sapp

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey. — Lee M. Sapp

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology. — Marvin Sapp

I didn't say what I said to be controversial just because most people are picking the Patriots to win. I consider myself a pretty good judge of talent when it comes to defensive linemen and the Panthers' biggest strength is their defensive line. You win the battle of the trenches and that goes a long way to winning the game. — Warren Sapp

Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn't going. — Warren Sapp

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not? — Marvin Sapp

I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time. — Marvin Sapp

I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old. — Marvin Sapp

I'm not spacing out. I'm just living in the moment. — Gregg Sapp

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.' — Marvin Sapp

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony ... — Marvin Sapp

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. — Marvin Sapp

Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things. — Marvin Sapp

I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other. — Warren Sapp

Just know He has His hands on You — Marvin Sapp

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone. — Marvin Sapp

I understand now that God trusts me enough to give me three kids - Marvin Jr., Mikaila and Madisson - who totally depend on me. They know I'm going to be there for them no matter what. — Marvin Sapp

Success is difficult to define. — Marvin Sapp

God didn't give you the strength to get back on your feet so that you can run back to the same things that knocked you down. — Marvin Sapp

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other. — Marvin Sapp

Sometimes I still wonder what my fans look like, but if I had to describe them, I'd say that they are everyday people with everyday needs who need a supernatural message to help them though their natural walk. — Marvin Sapp

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority. — Marvin Sapp

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch. — Marvin Sapp

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C. — Marvin Sapp

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim. — Marvin Sapp

Donley loved the flight deck. It excited him. A rush. He had some misgivings about navy life, but he craved the action on deck. Few things compared to the raw power of an F-14 Tomcat in afterburner. The intense heat. The smell of jet fuel. It felt like a monster truck rally with him in the middle of the action. — Darren Sapp

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool. — Marvin Sapp

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up. — Marvin Sapp

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it. — Marvin Sapp

The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live. — Marvin Sapp

Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time. — Lee M. Sapp

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. — Marvin Sapp

You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to ... If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation. — Warren Sapp

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you. — Marvin Sapp

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing. — Marvin Sapp

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. — Marvin Sapp

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people. — Marvin Sapp

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis. — Marvin Sapp

Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate. — Warren Sapp

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. — Allen Sapp

A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success. — Marvin Sapp

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children. — Marvin Sapp

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact. — Marvin Sapp

I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do. — Marvin Sapp

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water. — Warren Sapp

Entertainment and information work well together. — Marvin Sapp

Some things you just don't get over. — Marvin Sapp

Outside Ted (Washington) and Bobby (Hamilton), nobody was familiar with (the 3-4), — Warren Sapp

REST IN PEACE, MR. PARKER.
'You want us to be surreptitious?' Hawk said.
'Surreptitious?' Sapp said.
'I educated in Head Start,' Hawk said.
'Really worked,' Sapp said.
'No reason to be covert,' I said.
'You too?' Sapp said.
'Nope,' I said. 'I'm a straight Anglo white guy of European ancestry. We're naturally smart.'
'You missed Bernard,' Sapp said.
'Tall straight Anglo white guy,' I said.
'Hey,' Bernard said.
— Robert B. Parker