Quotes About Expectations

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

It makes my skin crawl when people tell me, 'Don't worry, you'll get another series.' Their expectations have little to do with mine.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

As a creative person, you never embark on something thinking it will be substandard.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

If I'm not performing on the field, if I'm not doing what's expected of me, what I say or attempt to get across to anyone else has no credence.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

Fans look up to us, and that's creepy.

The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.

In international cricket, the atmosphere changes, and the interest level is higher, but for a cricketer, it is still a game he has to play.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

In Ranji cricket, I am used heavily as a bowler, but in international cricket I hardly get four overs, and sometimes I never even get to bowl and bat at number eight.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

I knew there was going to be pressure on me with the captaincy. I knew people would be writing about my performances more than anyone else's, but that's not a problem because I have my dad telling me about my performance every single game, and he is my biggest critic.

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.

You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.

Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.

If you're a QB in the NFL, you'll be subjected to criticism.