Jens Lehmann Quotes

• Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

  Jens Lehmann

  Sports, Sometimes, Extreme Sports

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• At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

  Jens Lehmann

  Player, Thinking, Long

  "No twinkle toes, no imagination as England dance to wrong tune" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life.
  (after not being picked starting goalie)

  Jens Lehmann

  Sorry, Germany, Goalies

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• When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

  Jens Lehmann

  Pockets, Fists, Performances

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• In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

  Jens Lehmann

  Soccer, Football, Mirrors

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• If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain

  Jens Lehmann

  Pain, Body, Helpful

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• To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Sitting

  "Almunia comes to terms with Lehmann's 'hate'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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• He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

  Jens Lehmann

  Thinking, Insulting, Important

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• I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

  Jens Lehmann

  Girlfriend, Years, Insulting

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• I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

  Jens Lehmann

  Children, People, Giving

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• Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

  Jens Lehmann

  People, Insulting, Specialists

  "Lehmann complains at 'terribly insulting' Lampard" by Matt Scott, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

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• My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

  Jens Lehmann

  Disappointment, Thinking, Insulting

  "Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

  Jens Lehmann

  Mistake, Two, Insulting

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• He does not have my class.

  Jens Lehmann

  Class, Insulting, Doe

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• At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Counter Attack, Style

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• It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

  Jens Lehmann

  Careers, Decision, Insulting

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• They know how to play well but they do not know how to go through a whole tournament. We have been there and done it. They haven't.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Done

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• Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

  Jens Lehmann

  Goalkeepers, Emergencies, Steps

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