Sports Expectations Quotes

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

I respect everybody who goes to Kentucky. You know that once you sign with Kentucky, the same thing with Duke. You know each and every night it's going to be a team's Super Bowl. You're going to get their best.

For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That's what people remember.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're supposed to take your kids to the zoo. You're a father. So a team like that, we're supposed to beat them like this.

You can be the best left back in the world, but if you play badly in the final, people will say you're the worst.

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.

I don't think the qualifying fixtures excite people. They're games against countries that we are expected to beat, rightly so, and then how many we score dictates whether it's a good performance or not.

Obviously, when you have a quarterback of the caliber of Aaron Rodgers, we're going to have high expectations.

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

Nobody says if you hit No. 2 in the world you have to win all your matches.

You should not be flat playing for your country.

A lot of freshmen will come in and say they can do what Carmelo did, but not everybody is Carmelo Anthony. He was a special player. Syracuse was a great fit for him.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

I kind of had to convince myself when I was playing for the Washington Freedom that this was the highest level that I'm going to reach. 'I'm going to be a professional player, and I'm going to try and be the best one I can be, but it's maybe just not in my cards to be an international player. I won't play in a World Cup.' That was hard for me.

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

You dream of your first NFL start when you're a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

We want to change the way people think about England teams. At the men's tournaments, we haven't exceeded expectations, and it's the same with the women's. If we can change that, it could have a knock-on effect, even for the men's team.