Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Exxon Mobil reported record profit and people expect the same thing for oil producers' 2005 profit.

Bill Self

Fans are fans. I've said this many times: If I didn't expect there to be fallout when you don't perform well, then I shouldn't have taken the job.

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.

Carlos Delgado

We've been pitching extremely well. We can't expect to throw a shutout every night. They hit more than us.

Alonzo Mourning

We've been on big fellow's shoulders the whole year. We expect him to help us get where we need to go, and that's to the finals. But we know he can't do it by himself. Man, he just turned 34.

We're the underdogs. No one expects this out of us, and they won't expect anything out of us (tonight). We can just go out, play our game and not worry.

We're the underdogs. Nobody's expecting us to do anything.

We're the underdogs here. We have to come out and play hard because people don't expect much from us.

Chris Johnson

We need to spend time resting up, but we still expect them to be competitive and have good times.

We need to review what the House has sent us, but then I expect us to take our turn at bat.

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 when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always push that threat and say, 'Well, we're going to hold you accountable, we're going to tell everybody,' and one out of every 10 times it works out. This time it did.

We didn't expect to win by 20 and obviously we struggled down the stretch. St. John's is a tough team and we knew they would make a run.

Paul Cook

We didn't expect to have the success we've had.

We didn't expect to come out that strong. I think we just kind of startled them by shooting so well in the first quarter and we just kept it going.

We didn't expect to be using this much. Nick got into the routine of putting his shirt onto it every morning while he had breakfast.

We didn't expect to be at this point in the season with one loss. I thought we could potentially be sitting here with five losses right now.

Shaun O'Hara

We didn't expect this going into the game, but that is just a tribute to the guys preparing and being ready.

We didn't expect them to come back like that in the sixth.

We didn't expect them to be that strong from the outside. That was a shocker to us.

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.

We didn't expect some of them to throw as many pitchers as they did. Some of the results were not the way we wanted it.

We didn't expect it at all. We had about 6,300 seats sold on Friday and thought with a strong walk-up that we might trickle past 8,000.

We didn't expect him to do that well going short. He ran so well.

We didn't expect he would be so disappointed.

We had 750 riders from a total of 20 different states last year and we expect at least that many and possibly more this year.

Ellen Galinsky

Try to understand what they think and expect so, if they've got some outrageous expectations like you're supposed to know everything when you walk in, we can help and say, 'No, that's not true. School is place for learning.'

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.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.

Without their strong performance, the national figures would have been in negative territory, as you would expect at this time of year.