Quotes About Expectations

I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

Everyone is in their own bubble with stresses, pressures, and expectations on themselves - no matter what job title they have. Mine just happened to involve playing in front of a lot of people, but my issues would be no different from any other person's.

I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you've got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can't afford for you to get hurt.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.

It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?'

When I got my first VP title at 26, my parents finally stopped asking when I was going to get my law degree.

I don't believe in guys waiting for title shots.

It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.

When you play for Manchester United, any year you don't win the title, you feel like you haven't done your job.

It's a rather cute love story, like the title suggests, and is a out and out commercial. Given the title 'Ramachari,' we have a lot to live up to.

Italy won the world title in 2006 and went out in the group phase in 2010 and 2014. They didn't make it beyond the first round. You don't win things because of your history, the shirt, or the names on the teamsheet.

I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody's saying, 'Sign him up' - then, very quickly, I was out.

When I arrived at Liverpool, the budget was £20m gross. When I left, it was £17m, but still people said I must win the title. Manchester United had around £50m more every year, but they said I must compete against them.

For Feyenoor,d the biggest game is Ajax, but if Sparta are going to play for the title, then that will be the biggest game. It depends how both teams are doing.

I have won one title, but PSG made me understand they are looking for a leader, a coach with a vision, and I am very happy to have their confidence.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Being favourites is no title; it's an adjective. You win titles thanks to what you do on the pitch, and little else.

Titles are sometimes overrated.

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

A club like Arsenal, it's normal that expectations are high. This club must compete for titles, and that's what we want to do.

This is Real Madrid. You have to win titles every year. And if you don't? Oof, it's complicated.

If someone said at the end of 2016 that I'd be ranked No.1 in England, have three titles and be ranked top ten in the world at the end of 2017, I would have said probably not.