Quotes About Expectations

You can't make someone be your best friend.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.

As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.

I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

This world would be a better place if people just realized that there's no written-in-stone set time to do anything. You could meet the love of your life at 18 or 48. You could become an amazing mom and be in the right head for that incredible journey at 24 or 42.

CB4 is never coming back. A few years later, I think I'm a much better player. It's funny, even all the way over here in Africa, people are telling me, 'We need CB4 back.' I can't be that. That's impossible.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

No one in my town had ever gone to Kota. I mean, it was a big deal if people went to Bhubaneswar.

The moment I make a big deal of anything, I can't do that thing.

I've always wanted a big family - not this big!

I know I have a lot of fans, and it's a big mistake try to please everybody.

There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

When you turn professional with the amount of medals that I've won, then you have to assume that big things are expected of you and I've always tried my best to live with that.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear.

We're always asked the same three questions. If we're on our own we get, 'Where's your mate, then?' If we're in a car it's, 'Where's your bike, then?' And if you're having a meal, we get, 'You're not cooking, then?'

You'd expect the third time you do Live at the Apollo to be easier, easier peasier, a doddle. Like riding a bike. Except I can't ride a bike so that analogy has always been lost on me.