"You see, Lewy, being in goal is like chess. You play with your hands, but really with your head."
"I've never been a player who trained harder than others, but I've managed to maintain the same high level throughout my 18-year career. It may never have been a top ten, but I've never dropped below eight either. If I had played to the max, I would have had alternating tens and sixes, but I kept eights the entire time and made a career out of it."
He admits to enjoying food and recorded an unusually high body-fat measurement despite staying within the weight bracket. A teammate once mocked his physique, and the coach compared goalkeeping to chess, stressing mental over purely physical play. He answers calls to increase gym work by insisting goalkeeping is strategic. He never trained noticeably harder than others but preserved a steady high level across an 18-year career, avoiding extreme peaks and troughs. Consistent eights rather than alternating tens and sixes enabled a durable, successful professional trajectory.
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