Quotes About Expectations

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Not everyone is prepared for fame, not even at the level I got it. One minute you're just a face in the crowd, next minute everyone wants a piece of you.

I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.

When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.

We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.

The 2012 Olympics was such a high, but once it was over, I felt really down in the dumps. You don't really look beyond the event which you've spent four years preparing for, and so there's a bit of a comedown.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

I remember players talking to Willie Brown in my presence. Receivers asking, 'Is this who you drafted? I can't believe this is who you drafted.' I was hearing it from my defensive backs: 'Man, you got a long way to go.'

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

I guess the all-American presentation of what a player is supposed to stand for is not what I am.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

When I chose to come to Milan, I knew there would be another side to the medal from the one I saw the day I was presented here. The message the club were giving out was clear: this year is no joking matter.

When I first started, I tried to wear things I thought a 'Countdown' presenter should wear.

I'm exhausted by the idea that everyone is presenting this perfect life.