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Quotes About Expectation

I think with the qualities I have everyone expects me to dribble past four or five defenders every time I get the ball.
~ Scott Sinclair
Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.
~ Andrea Martin
Put as much pressure on me as possible. I have no qualms handling that, because I expect that out of myself.
~ Max Scherzer
I would look straight back at the quarterback thinking the ball's coming straight to me... and as soon as I looked back, the ball's going right over my head.
~ Shaquill Griffin
When we did 'Chicago' and we announced Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, everybody went crazy and said, 'What are they doing? What are they thinking?' And, now, you look at the movie, and you see that we chose the people that we wanted for that movie, and we were so proud of all of them.
~ Craig Zadan
Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.
~ Michael Beschloss
On 'Queer Eye,' I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don't know when or how, so our producers make sure they don't clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.
~ Bobby Berk
When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
~ Olivia Williams
There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
~ Fat Joe
It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
~ Harper Lee
I honestly thought I was going to win a major championship quicker than what I did, but it clearly took a little bit longer than expected.
~ Jason Day
You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.
~ Robert Green
Fame came at me a lot quicker and stronger than I imagined.
~ James Holzhauer
I didn't expect all of this success to come so quickly.
~ Bianca Andreescu
When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!
~ Ciara
I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.
~ Jerry Greenfield
I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.
~ Jenna Dewan
I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.
~ Gale Sayers
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me comedy is like being a magician, once they know the rabbit is coming out of the hat they won't care.
~ John Bishop
I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
The thing about 'Drag Race' now is that you don't really know what's going to happen when it gets to the end of the season.
~ Alaska
When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
~ Usain Bolt