Quotes About Expectation

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

That's what I do in my stand-up. I work hard and hone the material and after a while audiences expect what I do to be good.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

I never really expected the captaincy, honestly. It's a great honour to lead India at the Olympics.

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Someone at Tidal came to our show in New York in 2016, and I guess he was expecting, like, K-Pop. But he was surprised: he saw we were doing R&B and hip hop authentically.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.

My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.

Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes.

I'm trying to be a Leafs fan, but... Hopefully, in a couple of years, they might be good.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

I have my hopes high. I don't know how I'll top the Luke Combs tour, but I guess we'll see.

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Spend not on hopes.

When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.