Quotes About Expectations

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

Knowing that I was potentially going to be the first black Bachelorette actually held me back from wanting to do it. With the first, there's always so much pressure. And I knew I was going to be new to the audience as a lead for a number of reasons - being over 30, being a career woman, and also being black.

I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.

For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.

I was up for 'Harry Potter' way, way back. But I don't quite fit the bill, I think.

I hear it all the time: 'What happened to the Grace Potter who didn't used to wear makeup?'

I don't like when people say I act good for my age. Who would have said that to Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson when they were filming 'Harry Potter?'

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.

You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.

I moved up to 130 pounds hoping champions in this division were not cowards like those at 126 pounds. It looks like I was wrong.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.

Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.

I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

When you're just 21, as many of my players are now, it is difficult to consistently perform.

When you are successful, there is the pressure of performing consistently; when you are not, there is the pressure of coming back and doing well.

After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them.

When you come to a club like Liverpool, you need to perform straight away and consistently.