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Quotes About Surprise

People are anticipating my next move, and whatever it's going to be, it's going to be big. I'm not fussy over my opponent.
~ Darren Till
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
~ Nigel Short
You never show what you are going to do; you always do what the opponent doesn't expect.
~ Vitor Belfort
The biggest meaning and the most important thing is not to give opportunities to give the opponent an idea about how we are going to play.
~ Tite
If my opponent wants to think of me as a dunker, it's just gonna shock them more when I show them another part of my game.
~ Zion Williamson
My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.
~ Luke Rockhold
Nobody I know would have expected me to marry Will, and nobody he knows would have expected him to marry me because we are so opposite. Yet we're perfect for each other.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
~ Sam Riley
I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
~ Gordon Smith
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.
~ Mark Henry
When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.
~ Nicolas Cage
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
~ Judi Dench
I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
~ Elliott Smith
People can forget your music but we are more surprised than happy to see that no one has forgotten our music.
~ Liz Mitchell
My cousin's gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
~ Dick Van Patten
Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.
~ Mike Schultz
I didn't know basketball was going to be the outcome for me after school.
~ George Hill
It's never good when you're in an airplane and it suddenly feels like you're outdoors.
~ Josh Gates
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.
~ Peter Matthiessen
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
~ Donna Leon
I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something.
~ Jeremy Lin
People might not know much about Akavov, but this is a guy who went overseas and gave Billy Joe Saunders absolute hell. Most people thought that he should have won the fight.
~ Demetrius Andrade