Quotes About Expectations

We would go on 'The Voice,' and we'd get kicked off of the first episode, probably.

Unfortunately, doing business with friends rarely ends well and usually ends up kicking you in the butt, be it donkey or stallion!

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

My greatest fear is that I'll fail my kids.

Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

My dad has always been somebody, who is known to have heart of gold. He is too humble and kind. So, that kindness gets me into trouble sometimes because everybody expects me to be as nice as him.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

I'm not who people expect me to be. I'm not Henry Kissinger.

When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.

I don't connect with shows where we have women looking ultra-glamorous all the time, including in the kitchen.

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.

I was closest to my dad and he always knew that I am responsible and would look after my family. For him, I was always the boy child and not his girl.

I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic - a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I'm still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.

You think you've got to go out and knock someone out for it to be an impressive win. But it's kind of hard to even know what an impressive win means.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.