Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Jackson

When you're at home, you're expected to win. The pressure is on you to get it done. On the road, you're pretty much in the underdog position. It's much better.

We had stated that we expected prices to come down ... just two weeks ago.

The position, frankly, never matured to what I expected it to be.

Unearned revenue is more important than sales or earnings. And we expected unearned revenue to rise sequentially.

expected the worst and it was the worst.

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

Frank Thomas

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

We only expected parts of the oil and gas reserves to go back to the hands of the Bolivian government, but not 100 percent.

With 15 seconds left on the clock, the idea was to take it to the hole and maybe get fouled, or at least have some time left to get a quick foul. I never expected it to take 14 seconds.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

Arundhati Roy

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

We didn't expect that there. It was hard to come back from that. We were thinking that was going to be a win there.

To tell you the truth, that's how I expect Brett to pitch every game. He's really come a long way since last year.

With a tight job market, you would expect to see wages rise, but they are lagging.

With a massive shortfall in gasoline a strong possibility in the next few months and the hurricane season still active, we at least expect product prices to be supported for the time being even though oil and gas facilities are starting up again.

Scott McClellan

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

Colin Firth

I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

Colin Meloy

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

Hank Blalock

We understand what's expected of us. We didn't need to spend a lot of time talking about that stuff. We just needed to get to work.

Wall Street's mentality is that they don't expect much from 'Chicken Little,'

Andrew Bird

The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

Peter King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels, ... In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

The pants were getting very dirty. That's expected though when you have white on them.

Scott Niedermayer

The playoffs are tough. Nothing is going to be given to you. Tonight, we played like we expected that something would be given to us.

When you play a TPC course, you expect the best. This place is immaculate. It's rocky, it's scenic, but the conditioning is out of this world.

There are 100,000 people expected and we are honored to have such a great host to make our journey so comfortable.

We always talk about this game being a game of runs. Theirs was two points better than ours. No one expected us to be here, especially after our 1-7 start. But these kids have now set the standard for our program.

When you look at the fundamentals here the type of growth and the type of growth you expect the pricing isn't there.

Martin Brodeur

When you have a guy everyone expects to produce you just wait for him to explode. We can't forget about him.

Gary Payton

We've got to expect a war. Everybody's overlooking this team, but this is a very good team.

We've got to come out and expect to win. I think there are times when I think we come out tentative. We're not a young team anymore. We've had guys who haven't been through this, but we've got to get the job done.

Jim Brown

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

Shawn Horcoff

There hasn't been one game where one team has taken it from the start and just rode with it. That's just playoff hockey between two evenly matched teams. We don't really expect too much different in Game 6.