Quotes About Expectations

Clearly, any player would want to go to Real Madrid, but I think if there wouldn't be all the space that one needs there, then it wouldn't be the best move.

Real Madrid has a lot of high expectations, not only in terms of results but also with nice football and a lot of goals.

The pressure at Real Madrid is independent of the outcome of other teams and is always the highest.

Never mind a year, if you don't win one game, it can become a complicated week! Yes, that's life at Real Madrid.

The demands at Real Madrid are huge. The expectations are enormous. Sometimes, it is good. When you're winning, it's an amazing place and the fans are happy.

I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.

If you go to Real Madrid, there's no time to improve as a manager. You don't have a chance to be a better manager, you already have to be the best.

If you go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, the fans, the media and the decision-makers don't give you the time to grow into that.

Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they've done it.

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.

I still feel about 22. I don't understand, actually. I mean, as I got older, I thought there would be things like, 'I need a house now', 'I need kids', 'I need a licence to drive', but I have never really had that happen. I guess that forms part of my appeal for the people who like the stuff I do: I'm not a real person - I'm a gypsy.

I don't care who you are, if you're not feeling anxious before playing in a final, you're not a real person. I don't care who you are.

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

There's something that happens around 27 and 28, when people start coupling off more aggressively or changing their lives according to what their economic prospects are, and not keeping themselves on par with the group - you realise suddenly that they're not your family. And I think that's very painful.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

I used to play as a No. 10, in Bilbao, in most of the games, but when I came to United, when you come to one of the biggest clubs in the world, you realise that if you want to be a No. 10, you have to score 10, 12 goals per season.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

I always knew it was going to be difficult when I got beyong 40, but I didn't realise it would start at 35.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. But I didn't realise how much it would affect me mentally. All that pressure. I was only 19; I still didn't know everything about taekwondo, I wasn't experienced. I just did amazing on that day and won.

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

A lot of new signings find it difficult to settle because they don't realise how fast and how physical it is and how fast the games come round.