Quotes About Expectations In Sports

#1. When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

Ben Shapiro

#2. I could see Armstrong bouncing on the moon

Alexey Leonov

#3. Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

William J. Clinton

#4. I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

Barry Bonds

#5. Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#6. Your financial situation is not a question of fate or luck, but a result of thoughts, emotions and actions - that generate money.

Tami Yaari

#7. It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

Jade Edmistone

#8. Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Bill Parcells

#10. Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.

Radhanath Swami

#11. Great losses come when we move too quickly; great victories come when we wait and seize the right opportunity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. When you're as small as I am, people don't expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Daniel Rodriguez

#13. Love must become the air we breathe

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Jake Epstein

#15. Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.

Eric Bogosian

#16. I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Alex Gibney

#17. As I lay, a pink, dreamlike glow seeped into the room, gradually turning a bright, chemical red. The light inched towards the bed, slowly picking out our two bodies - developing us, I thought, the way photographs used to be made - until it was daylight and everything had its normal definition.

Olivia Sudjic

#18. You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

Andrea Jaeger

#19. I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.

John Elway

#21. Sport that consumed me for over two decades ... is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

Clara Hughes

#22. Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.

Tom Ford

#23. One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Tiger Woods

#24. I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

Lee Labrada