“The goalkeeper always starts again at nil, even when you're 2-0 down. ...” — Manuel Neuer Quote

“The goalkeeper always starts again at nil, even when you're 2-0 down. It always starts again at scratch. It's a completely mental thing, and I keep reminding myself of it during matches.”

“I got my first football when I was two and played my first proper game before I was five. So nothing else was ever an option!”

“As a goalkeeper, you like to be called upon.”

“The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.”

“For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.”

“Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.”

“I hit an exercise - arms and legs, a set of curls, a set of tricep pushdowns, and then grab the bar and squat 40-20-30 and do it over again. I hit that a couple times through, then go in the sauna. I'll do a couple calf raises, then hop on a treadmill at 15 - the highest incline it can have while maintaining a fast-paced walk.”

“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”

“I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.”

“I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.”

“I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.”