Quotes About Surprise

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.

I really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable.

Carlton Cole is no surprise to me anymore. For me, some of the bits he does are unbelievable.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

Getting a part in 'Raman Raghav 2.0' was an unbelievable moment. I couldn't believe that it was happening to me.

Every coach in the league does an unbelievable job, and they're prepared and think you're going to outcoach people, or you think that you're going to surprise, but you don't.

Unbelievable to me when I was first told Canelo would fight me in the Garden.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

War always takes you by surprise.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy