Field Goal Attempt

Famous quotes containing the words field, goal and/or attempt:

“... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)