Quotes About Expectations

As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

It's always tough when you miss a Grand Slam, especially Wimbledon.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.

I've always tried to be the same person I was before I won Wimbledon, but it has been very difficult.

I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.

In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.

I feel at times I get blamed for the weather at Wimbledon.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I think there's always pressure at Arsenal to win trophies - it's nothing new - and to us, as players, we know what we are capable of doing.

There's always pressure on Arsenal to go out and win games and win trophies.

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

It's sad that we have to be measured by how many championships we win.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

I know you ain't gonna win every single one-on-one, but in my mind, I'm supposed to.

I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.