In many outdoor ball sports, goal line refers to the line which a team is attempting to advance the ball or puck towards. In particular, see
- Association football pitch for usage of the term in soccer
- ESPN Goal Line, television show that gives live looks at multiple college football games
- Goal line (American football) for usage in American and Canadian football
- Goal line (ice hockey) for usage in ice hockey.
- Goal line, for usage in rugby league football, also called try-line
Famous quotes containing the words goal and/or line:
“The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.”
—Harriet Tubman (c. 1820–1913)