Loss of Momentum Quotes

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

The reality is, Ted Cruz has seen his best day.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Off-seasons hurt when you lose the last game.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

Ronda had her time and that buzz around her. She knows it has cooled down now. She knows she lost. That's the problem. She was undefeated for a long time and doesn't know how to deal with a loss now.

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.