Quotes About Expectations

You need to have your feet on the floor sometimes but you cannot take away the ambitions of the fans.

I have to be someone; maybe I'm just doing it for my father. When I made a movie, it had to be a hit because when he died, he was a flop director.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I am a human, and I fear flops.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

I've really learned, first, focusing on the future and thinking about the future doesn't let you enjoy where you are now. And second of all, it's things that you can't control. You can't know.

I used to think that if I was ever so lucky as to get a book deal that I would write all the time. All day, every day. I'd write three books a year. The truth, though, is that writing all day isn't really feasible. I could do it, but I'd be folding in on a lot of other aspects of my life, things I care about. And I wouldn't be happy.

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

I've started to experience being followed around where I live, and it's never nice. With acting, you realize that it's part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you're sort of born into it.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

I think part of the reason some coaches don't want to be involved with social media is that they expect to be able to do it at a certain level. A lot of them are like, 'I'm not going to do it if we can't hit 100,000 or 200,000 followers.' Well, you're not going to right away.

From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted that matters to me, to be completely honest.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

I've seen managers come in and lose the first game, you're on the back foot straight away.

After I won the Heisman a lot of people were thinking I probably wouldn't set foot on a baseball field, but I love this game, too. That's what some people fail to realize.

Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.

You have to win football matches, and if you don't, you allow people to criticise you.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.