James Haskell Quotes

Every player wants to win the World Cup - every country wants to win the World Cup - so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won't be entirely happy if you don't win it.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

It's difficult when you want it all.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

There were rumors in the air that all these different clubs were looking at me but I didn't know which specific clubs. No one told me anything. And then I got a message: 'Bayern Munich want to meet you.' I was like: 'Oh my god. Really?' It was both exciting and scary. I just had to prove to myself that I could compete at this level.

If I hear about a big match coming up, I'll get anxiety about it, and I'll start thinking about it, like, 'What's gonna happen? Is this my shot?'

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

to hope was to expect

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.