Quotes About Goals

When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

You will always have people to prove wrong. I always have done and I always will. I use that to spur me on and stay hungry and that's the big aim.

I scored eight goals in 12 games against Spurs. I'm proud of this achievement because I know this rivalry is very important for the Arsenal fans - when you score eight times against Spurs you are an idol for them. And I know the Spurs fans hate me. I know this and it is a good sensation.

It is a great boost for confidence in a squad when there is not just one or two players scoring goals, but the whole team is contributing.

Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.

For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.

By the time I'm 25, I want to be financially stable.

I really want to make Charlton a stable side in the Premier League but I'd be lying if I said England wasn't in the back of my mind.

Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.

Top players now will get bonuses for winning competitions or reaching various stages of them, scoring goals, or keeping clean sheets, but most don't play football for the money, because it's not been in the game that long. They do it for the love of playing.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Dreams are what keep a man going.

Resolve can take many forms. It can flourish within a daily routine, a list prepared each night and answered each day. Or it can take a more organic form, a desire formed and kept in view, something to move toward as time and circumstance allow.