Quotes About Expectations

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

There's not a bunch of pressure at the Pro Bowl.

You get drafted, you perform like a Pro Bowler, then they pay you. But there's certain teams in this league, that's not what they're trying to do.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

Ever since I was at Blackburn, when you talk about getting pro contracts I was never the guy that was talked about as, 'This guy is going to be the best player, the next best thing.'

Before coming into college, I definitely wasn't ready to go pro. I didn't have those results that all the other players had. I didn't have the confidence in my game or myself, or things like that.

There is a pressure in this country that comes from being a boxer with an Olympic medal and then turning pro.

I was the 10th pick, people were thinking could be an All-Star, but I turned out to be a pretty damn good pro.

I didn't know if pro ball was in the plans for me. I didn't know it was going to happen right away.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

Pretty girls have problems too.

You can't make somebody love you, no matter what you do to yourself. You can get implants, you can get all these procedures, thinking you will be more of a woman for that person. But it does not make a difference. If they don't love you, they won't no matter what you do to your appearance.

I'm going to demand. I'm going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don't know what is needed for a team to break through.

As I've always said, the way New Yorkers back us we have to produce for them.

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

Scotland - and Glasgow - is a tough place to play football and a lot of big names have come up here and not produced.

When you tell your kids they can be anything, you've got to be careful. I told my kids that, and I ended up with a music producer and an interior designer. But they're doing it.

Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.