Quotes About Momentum

Badminton will gain momentum in a big manner after my win in Olympics. More players will participate in the game now.

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

Most experienced tournament players understand that you tend to win in clusters anyway.

The moved and the shaken.

?çimde ani bir karar do?du. Kendini tatbik ettirmek için muhtaç oldu?u büyük enerjiyi de beraber ta??yan bu karar? vakit kaybetmeden fiile geçirmek istedim. Zira onun en kuvvetli dü?man? zamand?.

Thirty minutes into the game, I was quite comfortable. Then they [...] got two goals back-to-back which certainly turned the game in their favour.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

Livet är rörelse.

By practicing slowly, you actually learn the technique better, because you do not allow momentum alone to do the work. Slow motion facilitates the firing of the neural pathway that activates the muscles used. It also helps you use only the muscles and neurons needed, leaving the others relaxed, and preventing any wasted motion.

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

I have two settings: full speed and stop.

When you've got off to a good start and you've got wickets in the shed you've got to keep trying to take the game on.

I never work backwards.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

The game of basketball is full of runs.

Energy begets energy.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.

A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.

Life is always poised for flight. From a distance it looks still, silhouetted against the bright sky or the dark ground; but up close it is flitting this way and that, as if displaying to the world at every moment its perpetual readiness to take off in any of a thousand directions.

Perkins's first piece of advice came from Hemingway, the only survivor of his great triumvirate of the twenties: "Always stop while you are going good. Then when you resume you have the impetus of feeling that what you last did was good. Don't wait until you are baffled and stumped.

To overcome fear, why does getting excited work better than trying to calm yourself down? Fear is an intense emotion. You can feel your heart pumping and your blood coursing. In that state, trying to relax is like slamming on the brakes when a car is going 80 miles per hour. The vehicle still has momentum. Rather than trying to suppress a strong emotion, it's easier to convert it into a different emotion - one that's equally intense, but propels is to step on the gas.

The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.