Field Goal Attempt

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

“And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)

“When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“In the deeper layers of the modern consciousness ... every attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is—ultimately—impossible.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)