Quotes About Expectation

Everybody wants instant gratification for everything. It's all got to be like fast food. You want a hamburger now, you get it now. Hey, even when McDonald's started out, it took them a couple of minutes to make your burger and get it to you. Now, it's all wham, bam. That's tough enough on a burger. It's impossible with a relationship.

It was tough to go to Norwich and not play after doing well at Coventry.

They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've ever met my mother, you should know that's not even in the cards. She's much tougher than I am - she's a retired schoolteacher, so she's seen it all.

I think reality TV is a little tougher for me than I thought it would be.

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little rougher.

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I toured with Danny from The Script, but he is so nice.

I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

I didn't know what to expect when we first started touring behind 'Southeastern' because you don't want to lull anybody to sleep or lose their attention. But it's really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.

The period of time between when you're done with a record and when you start touring is the worst period of a time in a musician's life.

It's always a terrible feeling knowing that you're about to go home from the NCAA Tournament.

You never know what will happen during a tournament: things like injuries, for example.

If you go into a tournament thinking that you're not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won't achieve anything.

Previously, people were like, 'She might win the tournament,' but now it's like, 'She should win the tournament.'

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.