Quotes About Expectations

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is...Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

They are who we thought they were!

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.