Thomas Sowell Quotes

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

I've been given the opportunity to carry forward the legacy with which people associate me; I can't escape it even if I don't like it. I take pride in carrying forward what's been given to me.

It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because you realize you've been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don't do anything to get torn down.

I know everything I do is going to be magnified.

I know awards give great responsibilities and audience will certainly expect more from you.

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

The expectation in Munich is always high, this expectation I have towards myself personally and to my players. I was aware of that when I signed with Bayern.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

That’s my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.

He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

People should always know better.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.