Jens Lehmann Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

He does not have my class.

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.

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

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

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

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

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

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.

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.