Unexpected Challenge Quotes

I remember when I first walked into an American locker room, and no one had ever seen a 130-pound wrestler before. Those guys thought I was such a joke.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what she's playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.

There is something daunting about getting a role you didn't formally audition for, another weight of needing to prove yourself.

I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

Everybody's one fight away from getting a title shot if they step in on short notice for somebody.

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.

When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

A number of anxious dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Who wants to be a war President? I don’t. But this is what came our way.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.