Quotes About Expectations

I don't get the fuss about President's Day. I spend my whole life not living up to promises and nobody's giving me a holiday.

Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? Because those men already have boyfriends.

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

We get stereotyped so much. Look, people are going to think what they're going to think of me, but if I'm myself consistently then I don't fit into your little box of what a professional athlete is.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.

After any game you're going to get the love, the hate: That's just what comes with being a professional athlete.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

Thibs is a guy that... just expects a certain level of professionalism, he expects you to do things the right way, be prepared and do things the right way on a day-to-day basis, and if you don't want to do that, then it's gonna be tough.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it's not going to happen. I mean, I'd be amazed if that ever happened. It's not gonna happen.

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build India,' it was all about being an accountant, a lawyer, an engineer. So it was this idea that professionals would build the country.

I am no different from so many professionals who go on maternity leave only towards the end of their pregnancy.

You see guys in amateur contest who are much better conditioned than the professionals. To me the professionals should be better. Just because they are bigger, it doesn't mean they are better.

People expect because it is called 'Friends' that everyone was great friends, but they were real professionals.

In our community, we are encouraged to take up professions like medicine or engineering that offer consistency and job security. Acting is not a 'real' profession.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

I had a different agent after 'Hook,' and they were, like, 'We don't know where to go with you. It's like you've already gone to the top of what's out there for a young Asian actor.' No one had done anything higher profile than that. And I'm, like, 'OK, but I'm only 15.'

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

I think that everyone expects Xavi to be a coach, and he has the profile to be at Barcelona or wherever he is.