Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudi Johnson

Let him be. He's focused. We're all expecting big things out of him, and he's expecting big things out of his teammates. Let him focus and soak it in and be ready for Sunday.

Lower Richland expects to win. We're in the hoping-to-win stage. That makes a difference.

Greg Olsen

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

Lou really had a year that he had to stay away from major league baseball. I didn't know that at the time we talked about it. It's just not going to happen this year. And I would expect Lou to go back to managing.

Looper is important to our bullpen. Can it be a good bullpen? Yes, if somebody else steps up if he isn't what we expect him to be right away. The key is getting him to do the things he needs to be doing.

Last year was the first year in about 19 years they didn't make the playoffs, so you always know they are always going to have a quality team. They usually have a lot of talent. We don't know a whole lot about them, but I fully expect them to come in ready to play and have one or two real good pitchers to throw at us.

Last year, there were at least 250 people, but probably more, ... This year we are expecting about 500.

Last year, you're a rookie and everything you do is a better-than-everybody-expected kind of deal. Now going into the season, there's a lot expected of you. I think that's a little different and the pressure is going to be a little different.

E. O. Wilson

Last year we were praying and hoping to get in. We expect to be in this year.

Lindsay Whalen

Last year we were 18-16, and the playoffs start, and the next thing you know, we're in the finals. Pretty cool. This year, we expected to win.

Mark McClellan

Many people were expecting significant reduction in retiree coverage, which just hasn't happened.

Seventy-nine votes is (a) pipe dream. We expect the opposition to show some statesmanship as expected of honorable representatives.

Randy Johnson

Seventeen wins is good, but I expect more this year. I want to show people I still have the stuff.

Selling the tickets, we don't expect to be a problem.

Scott Bailey

So far so good. Three percent is really good growth. ... I expect an improving job market -- 1999 was the last time people saw job growth like this.

So long as they don't threaten a nuclear exchange, some differences between India and Pakistan do not worry the Americans. Pakistanis also tend to expect too much from the Americans on such perennial issues as Kashmir.

So I would expect two to three perhaps striking the United States,

She was the difference. When you outshoot a team 2-1, and get nearly 40 on net, you would expect some to go in.

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

She's a really good player for us. She's still a little young, and as she matures, more will be expected of her.

Kathie Gifford

She sang beautifully. She looked lovely. She was wearing a wig, of course. She had been through chemo and radiation. She was very thin, which you would expect for somebody going through what she was going through.

She's incredible. That's what we expect from her every night.

She should have a really good meet (Saturday). I expect she'll do really well in the shot (put) and the weight throw.

Emily Watson

She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.

Dennis Prager

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Dennis Prager

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Denis Johnson

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

Jesse Jackson

We're simply saying to Wall Street corporations ... we expect you to open up the market place, ... We (African-Americans) have good products, services, talent and capital. Let us in.

We're looking at a slightly lower open as we see some consolidation. At the same time I don't expect the market to give up much of what it has gained over the last two days.

Life works out - but not as you expect it

Like everyone else, we expect a quarter-point hike in fed funds today to 4.75 percent -- we also expect the statement to be softened.

Life has to go on and people have to use the transport system. People always expect the Americans in particular to shy away after there have been incidents but we have not heard of any mass cancellations.

Martin Kelly

We are on heavy standby and we expect that we will probably have to open a shelter.