Conflicting Expectations Quotes

I hate this idea that I've somehow become detached. It's like I can't win. I'd been hearing all these years that I was too hands-on: that I was the guy writing out the lineup card. Now, I'm not present enough. How is it possible to be a detached micromanager?

Now I know how Jack feels when he has told three people that they can each be Secretary of State.

I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

The office of the President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Girls... they test you, and I don't like that. I don't get it. They do things, and then when you respond, they get mad. It's so confusing, I can't even explain it.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.

Your either accused of being dictatorial or of being weak—occasionally both at the same time. You just have to take your pick.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.