He created unsustainably high expectations for himself and conjured visions of one day succeeding Rivera.
Ian Thorpe, the teenage torpedo of world swimming, said Sunday that he had great expectations for himself.
In Mitchell's case, the diminuendo was especially long, and his continued expectations for himself much higher.
That means he's setting his sights high, or that he's got unusually grandiose expectations for himself.
He set high but manageable expectations for himself, his club and his team, and then he failed to meet those expectations.
"Terrell isn't talking about it because he doesn't want to create false expectations for himself, for the Broncos, or for the fans," Schwartz said.
And when asked if he had any goals for the season or had set expectations for himself, Miller leaned on his ski poles and smiled.
In an interview on a flight from Cleveland to Austin, Tex., on Wednesday, Mr. Bush was careful not to be overconfident -- or to raise expectations for himself.
3. François Marin François Bégaudeauu, "The Class"): He makes mistakes, but Marin's high expectations for himself and his students make him as dedicated a pedagogue as any we've seen on screen.
"The blue sky is my first artwork," he declared, neatly summing up his ambitions to breach the ordinary boundaries of art; no mean feat in post-war Europe.Besides revealing Klein's grand expectations for himself, this anecdote helps to illustrate why he is still so difficult to classify.
Broady created big expectations for himself by reaching the final of both Wimbledon and the US Open as a junior.
