Quotes About Expectations

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

You know when you arrive at one of the best clubs in the world it won't be easy to play.

I was always in my mind that for the top-six clubs in England my name was not big enough.

At clubs with constant media attention it is harder.

Having been at big clubs, when you sometimes don't produce, then don't expect the fans to understand. They will boo.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.

We all want our players to be perfect and never make errors, but we all do. Even coaches.

A lot of coaches might yank you after the first couple shots don't go in.

I think when coaches look at me, they don't see a prototypical running back.

I've told stories about people coming to my office and giving me their coats and requesting that I hang them up and get coffee - which I dutifully do. And then I come in and sit at the head of the table. It's awkward.

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

I had the pressure when I started my career at 18 at Cologne, when people were saying, 'Ah, Podolski, the new hero of Cologne.'

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

People a lot of times have expectations for combinations, if you can throw something that they don't expect or throw something in a way that they don't expect it, it can be pretty successful.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

I mean, something has to give. You can have it all at work, you can have it all at home, but you can't have it all completely combined.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

You know the quickest way to get comedians to hate you? Do Letterman at age 24.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.