I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
People, when they sent me to Cleveland, what they expected was for Shawn to go to Cleveland and us to lose, you know what I'm saying? It's not going to happen.
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
Everything can happen in tennis.
My worst expectations never happened.
It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
Everything can happen in football.
I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.
We've come through on a very strange path, and it's all somehow worked out.
You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.
When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'
There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
Anything is possible in football and every match is different!
