Famous Quotes & Sayings

No one expected us to be on top. I still wish we didn't lose the game. I was hoping to win for me and the people back home. Big for us, really big for us. They thought we couldn't have done it.

No one expected this, no one gave us a chance, but we got better and better the more we played.

No one expected it now. Five years ago this was something people might have (speculated about), but not recently. When you look at it, it probably makes a lot of sense.

No one expected him to win. A lot of people didn't even expect him to make it to the second period.

Online started out strong and they maintained their strength through the season, even late in the season when we expected it to trail off.

We did it just before the half. Our offensive coordination expected us to down there and score.

We did better than a lot of people expected us to, but we still could have done better.

I am satisfied with the progress of most land-based operations. Some were obviously expected to take a long time to produce profits.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Raja Bell

I'm a little surprised, yeah. I don't know that I would've expected us to be in first with that record.

Maybe it was our turn. I never expected to get here, so it's one big thrill.

Now we have to rethink that because they are a lot fresher then we expected them to be at the end of the season.

Pankaj Mishra

Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.

Tina Brown

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.

New, high-profile trials can be expected in the near future.

William Bratton

nobody who knew much about the true facts of this case, or about John, expected him to be removed.

Abraham Lincoln

Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.

Brad Smith

(Freeman) took us down, turned us and pinned us in about 30 seconds at the one of the tournaments we were at (earlier in the season). That was a real pleasant surprise because on paper we weren't expected to win that. That's huge for him.

Frankie's stuff and his poise enabled him to succeed, and he just did it at a time when nobody expected it because nobody knew who he was.

Jay Haas

Four really turned things around. I never expected to make a 4 there. Then the birdies at 14 and 15 turned a good round into a really good round.

Tom Seaver

I don't remember ours at all because at the time it was nothing special, ... It's what you were expected to do and what we expected of ourselves.

I expected we'd hit the millionth ton some time in 2008 or 2009.

I expected us to win this game at home. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out that way. Now, we have to do it the hard way. We have to get that win (tonight) and hopefully force a Game 3.

I expected us to play well, but I don't think they were themselves.

Dee Brown

I expected us to go to California. You have to expect the worst.

I expected us to do better this year. I won't say what a great success this season was. I think we underachieved. We're better than our record says.

I expected us to come out and play hard, but it was a blur. They go up nine-zip and then they stretch it to 18-4.

I expected to win the pole vault, and I expected to do well in the triple jump, but I didn't think I was going to win.

I expected to see all teenagers here. I'm overwhelmed. I had no clue.

I expected to play for three or four national titles, to be honest with you.

I expected to have an improved year over last year because last year was a season filled with major injuries to main players.

I expected to get kids through (to state), but I didn't expect this many. To get five kids through is unbelievable. We have 12 wrestlers on the whole team, and five made it.

Fred Taylor

I expected to feel worse, actually. But I feel pretty good.