Bobby Robson Quotes

In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

I'm not counting any chickens.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

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

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

Wait and see.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

I don't like to get too far ahead of myself.

I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.

I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.