Momentum Shifts Quotes

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.

I just take it a season at a time because I know in football, things can change so quickly.

Things can happen very quickly in football.

On grass, many players can be dangerous because one break can decide a whole set.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

In football, things happen so quickly.

Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'

In football, sometimes things go very quickly.

There are incredible decisions made in a 48-minute game with a 24-second shot clock and the last two minutes of a game.

Mixed martial arts has small windows of opportunity and there's always new faces coming through, so it's easy to forget you.

There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

But the IPL is a long tournament and results keep going up and down invariably.

In the one-dayers, it boils down to who performs better on the day of the match.

Every footballer has his ups and downs.

There are always cycles in football.

A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

Sitting on the bench, scoring a goal, and then being back on the bench is quite difficult to deal with for an attacker.

Everything can change pretty quickly in Formula One in two or three races.

Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.