Jens Lehmann

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Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: 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
Collection: Player
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When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: Pockets
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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
Collection: Soccer
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If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: Pain
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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
Collection: Play
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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
Collection: Thinking
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I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: Girlfriend
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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
Collection: Children
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Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: People
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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
Collection: Disappointment
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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
Collection: Mistake
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He does not have my class.
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: Class
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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
Collection: Play
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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
Collection: Careers
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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
Collection: Play
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Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.
- Jens Lehmann
Collection: Goalkeepers