Quotes About Expectations

Obviously there are questions when anyone comes up to the Premier League about whether they can cope.

A lot of people told me not to come to the Premier League because of the physical demands, especially if I came straight from Brazil to England. But it's not been like that.

The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.

I went from Chelsea to Fulham - two Premier League teams at the time - and was sitting on the bench for the Europa League and Premier League and you don't think it is going to finish.

When things go wrong it is magnified 10 times more in the Premier League.

There's lots of money in the Premier League and people think it's going to filter down. It does to a certain extent, but it's not all about that.

If you're a manager in the Premier League the pressure is enormous because if you don't win matches, you'll not be there very long.

I like Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud, they are good players, but are they going to win you the Premier League? No, and I say that because they are not going to be in the top five or six goal scorers in the league.

The big Premier League clubs will only call me if I win a title in Germany.

You could say I've not been the same player for Ireland as I have in the Premier League.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

We do not question an athlete who is disciplined in order to achieve their goals, and yet as parents the same premise is not applied.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

It's never easy. You think you're ready but nothing prepares you. You're knocked for six. No matter how much you want a baby, having one's totally different.

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But nothing prepares you for your first film.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.