"I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit."

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

Oliver Kahn

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“I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar”
“As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.”
“I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”
“She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.”
“Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.”
“If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.”
“The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.”
“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. ... The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.”

Source : "Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism". michael-hudson.com. September 3, 1998.

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