"I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again."

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Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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“I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.”
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”
“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
“If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.”
“I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancÃ© - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.”

Source : "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.”
“If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.”
“That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible”

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