Quotes About Goal

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

The FA Cup as a tournament was very good to me. I'd like to think I can still have some association with that because it was the Ronnie Radford goal for Hereford against Newcastle which really put me on the map in 1972.

I want to be at the end stages of every tournament that I play - every time.

There's no point going to a tournament if you don't want to win.

I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.

I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes.

I want to make the Tartan Army happy and qualify for a major tournament. That's the goal.

Qualifying for a major tournament is something that we need to do. You want your best players around you to be able to do that.

Every tournament is important to me and I need to give my best.

That's the reason we play this game - to make it to the tournament, and to try to win games once you get in it.

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

I've always been about progress and accomplishment. When you set your mind toward a goal, you continue to have follow-through.

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

Fundamentally, the solution to economic insecurity is economic prosperity - an achievable goal. But for anyone who has grown up without financial security, there's a shadow that lies over even those who move towards independence: lack of financial literacy.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.