Surprising Result Quotes

The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.

It's difficult to make predictions in the Premier League, as unpredictable things can happen, and I know that well: I won the title in a crazy way and lost one unexpectedly.

No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.

In a final, anything is possible.

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

I remember when James Wan and I did the first 'Saw' movie, a lot of people would say to us, 'Well, you left the door open for a sequel.' And we would say, 'No, we literally closed the door!' We thought it was a nice ending. Little did we know that the producers had other ideas once the film was a hit.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

People said I was tanking, but Billie Jean beat me fair and square.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

It is always difficult, if you win against City, everybody expects it to be an easy win, but it will not be easy. It will be very difficult.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

Anything can happen. That's why sports are so great, the unexpected.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.