Top 160 Momentum Quotes

Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you’ll distill from them is quickness and momentum.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms… would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.

No one has ever done the Echo Arena, and I’m a Scouser. The momentum I’ve got and the way MMA is growing in the city and the way MMA fans are – Scousers, as individual fans, are just amazing – it doesn’t matter who it’s against.

When I came to WWE back in the day, I’d been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.

When I’m playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you’re not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn’t gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress was abducted and assaulted or when Telugu actress Sri Reddy was banned for talking about sexual harassment. These instances were more deserving of the #MeToo movement than anything else.

Some of the most exciting moments in ‘Star Wars’ are when you’re cutting between stories and you’re building this momentum.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

I imagine pretty much every analytics guy in football has offered a suggestion based on data, and the coach has probably gone a different way because of momentum or because he just doesn’t trust the spreadsheet.

A good beginning is like a honeymoon; it gets over soon. The challenge is in keeping up the momentum.

A lot of it’s mental – a lot of the juniors, once you break them or change the momentum, they go away very quickly.

If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action – which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory – the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.

I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.

It’s always helpful to pick our fans’ brains to see what their favorite videos are and to figure out what the momentum of our channel is. Not just based on views or likes or dislikes, but anecdotally.

I focus a lot on training and running because in T20s one run-out or one catch can also change the momentum of the opposition.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

Momentum is an amazing thing when it is working in your favour.

I want to turn momentum on traffic. I want to make in a dent in homelessness on the way to eradicating it on our streets. But there’s always something else to do tomorrow. And you have to be at peace knowing you’re not going to finish it all.

‘Bionic Woman’ changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

‘Blackbird’ is the only one I’ve ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because at the time we did it at Manhattan Theatre Club, there was real momentum to move it to Broadway.

You can’t take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can’t take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that’s going to help you play better.

I believe the green movement is gaining momentum because people are becoming more educated about the real importance of living green.

We haven’t had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.

I definitely prefer the courts at Wimbledon – they’re a little bit slower. I know I can play well there, I just need to keep the momentum there and take care of everything that I can.

Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints – including time, place, and all previous definitions – what comes next?

Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is – if you are not around that environment, then you’ll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.

Twitter has created a certain momentum that is not always fact-based. I worry about that because I still live in a world where you need to have two sources.

I do feel my work has momentum.

I was hedging my bets with university. I always wanted to do music, it was just about waiting for the point when I could confidently say ‘okay, I reckon there’s enough momentum behind this thing to sustain myself.’

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

After every good win, you build momentum and confidence.

I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill’s got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.

I think it’s important to maintain this momentum and especially when you are representing your country, you have a lot of pressure of people around you and you have to be at your best behaviour.

You can help build momentum in training by keeping the pace and intensity high. Make things happen in training, and then you can transfer that onto the pitch.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

There’s a momentum to being committed to a group that you think is good, and there’s a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to make your choice a good choice.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Certainly it’s very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.

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

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There’s a momentum for change that’s very compelling.

Many queer and trans people live – and lived – in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn’t help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

When you’re on a roll, you want to stay busy – you want to keep that momentum going.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

The supply chain industry in our Commonwealth continues to gain momentum, in large part due to The Port of Virginia’s unparalleled infrastructure.

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.

Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.

At first I didn’t realize that I had fractured my thumb amidst the momentum of batting.