Famous Quotes & Sayings

I never expected to finish second or third. I always skate to win.

Jon Kitna

I never expected to come here and have the job handed to me.

I never expected to be in this position. But hard work pays off. It has showed with the season we're having.

Ted Ligety

I never expected to be here right now. A medal wasn't something that I could have foreseen.

I never expected them to get famous. It's been a lot of fun. It's been so like owning a sports franchise without the aggravation that goes with it. But there's a lot of pain that goes with it, too. They're like my kids. It's hard not to worry about the future.

I never expected the game to go like this. I thought that we played well in spurts.

I never expected that would run 14 seconds off the clock. My gut at the time favored the percentages of going to the hole.

I never expected that last weekend, none of us did.

I never expected something like this to happen to Jordan, ... This is our Jordan, and I will fight this with my every means.

I never expected it, and I wasn't looking for it. But we're awfully, awfully fortunate.

Pedro Martinez

I never expected Giles to score like that, ... We are facing a smart team. Obviously, they are on top of their game.

Melvin Mora

Oh my goodness. That's a big thing. It's a big loss for the team if Tejada leaves. I never would have expected him to make such comments.

No, it doesn't (feel like we had our highest score). And I think the girls feel like that, also. I thought they competed very, very well tonight, (but) we just weren't as sharp as I would have expected to be. We still need to work on our landings on vault. We work on it every day.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing is to be expected from the workman whose tools are for ever to be sought

Not at all. The fact that we?re expected to play as well as we did last year puts a lot more pressure on me and Sheldon to play at the top of our game.

Jim Doyle

Not a nickel of it is from the school board. The past four years, we've had limited goals. The first year we just wanted it to run. This year, we never expected to be seventh.

It was a better scenario than expected for the stock market.

Willie Smith

It was out of the blue. The last thing my stepfather expected was for someone to pull a knife and kill him.

E. O. Wilson

It was pretty rough. I expected the worst and when I got there it was a reality.

It was pretty loud at the start. I expected louder, though.

Jaret Wright

It's what I expected after getting hit in the neck with a ball. It's sore. It's stiff. ... If there's any way to make my next start, I'll make it.

It turned out a lot better than I anticipated. I truly expected us to be in trouble following Katrina.

It took a little longer than expected to find ourselves.

The (tunnel) collapses we found are greater than expected and there are more of them.

Jackie Johnson

They can?t be expected to know. It?s not their fault. But there is nowhere to go.

Jackie Johnson

They can't be expected to know. It's not their fault. But there is no where to go.

They wanted it. I'm not going to lie to you. But we want to come back here next year and do this again. Nobody expected us to be here. It's like I told the girls. Only two teams in the state got to play in this game tonight and we were one of them. That's something to be proud of.

They (help out) so often that I kind of expected it to happen.

Frank Robinson

There's no real problem. At that moment, at that that time, I expected a little different reaction from him. He said he was only mad at himself -- he had an opportunity and let it slip away.

There's not much expected of us this year, but I think we'll surprise people.

The trade of the week is trying to be short in front of what's expected to be a strong payrolls report and in anticipation of the refunding supply next week.

Chuck Jones

The top line looks very good, ... were better than expected just because of the size of the company.

The trends are very strong. We're making up ground. We expected some of that, but the numbers now are better than I thought they would be.