Quotes On Expectations

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

If I did slip up, the entire earth would fall off its axis, and it would entirely be my fault, and I would be put into pop star jail forever and ever.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.