Quotes About Expectations

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

Ballroom is a man's world. It's tough for women, particularly single women. But I've never expected life to be anything but tough.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Everyone's always like, 'Be your best self!' And that drives me bananas, because when you're not, it makes you feel really bad.

If the crowd wants me to go out there and bang out - and that's not something that I do - then they need to go watch somebody else.

I think because of my name and my dad, two things I am so proud of, the bar has always been so high in people's minds. But my bar has always been higher than that.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.

When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don't know what you can achieve.

It's not easy to play for Atletico. Talent is not enough, the bar is very high.

At Bayern, the bar is set very high, and we all know how to deal with it. We live with that amount of pressure every day, otherwise we wouldn't be able to maintain our level of performances.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

The biggest barrier for women is the thought that they can't have it all.

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.

Every time I thought I've seen every possible scenario, something else comes up. You just have to be prepared at every level.

It is good to have aspirations, but we have to be real.