Quotes About Expectations

People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

A lot of people refer to young Diana as sweet and shy, and yeah, a lot of us are when we're 18 or whatever.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

You have to tell guys to ask you on a date. Smile when you do it - however that works, I'm not 'Cosmo.' But yeah - not a lot of people know how to 'court' anymore, sorry.

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I knew I did not want to be a doctor; my parents kept talking to me about that. I wanted to be an NBA player, but around freshman and sophomore year, I stopped growing, so that was the end of that.

Everyone in my family went to college. So I went for a year to appease people, in a way. I didn't really see that being my path, but I did want to be sure, as well, about that. When I was, that's when I left.

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going to go and try and find somebody else that can.

After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'

You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

My having won a gold medal in Beijing is not going to be an extra advantage. It does not have any bearing on how I perform in London in a year's time.

My family has been thinking of arranging my marriage for over a year now. At one point I too thought it would be fine.

Sometimes fans... they want more and more and more, and they think you win a national championship every year. It doesn't work that way.

I'm a square. I always wanted the standard-issue American dream: beautiful home, loving husband, couple of kids. I met another square, and we got married; a year later, we had a baby; three years later, had another.