Quotes About Expectations

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

I always kind of struggled a little bit with being captain sometimes, because sometimes you feel like you have to be someone that you're not.

I had come from Poland and the attention on you is much bigger when you get to the Premier League, so everything was doubled or tripled. Obviously, there were times when I struggled to deal with the criticism.

For a long time - when we first started getting a much higher level of attention - I really struggled with feeling like I was letting people down. Because when you do a show, there are, like, a hundred fans waiting to see you afterwards, and sometimes you can't see them.

You have clay players that have maybe struggled doing as well on hard courts and those will get criticised. But you also have hard court players or grass players who maybe struggle doing well on clay, and that will always be the case.

'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

Even though I try not to overthink and dress the way I want to, I admit that there's way too much pressure on female actors to look good. I'm well aware that I don't have the perfect body type. I'm constantly struggling with myself to achieve the perfect body.

I know all the opponents are behind me, so I should win every match, which is tough.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you're the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.

We are used to the whistles of the opposing fans, but when we are booed by our own fans, it's hard to live with.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.