Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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If I’m wrong and there is a God, I like to think that the fact I noticed some of his best work while the rest blundered about blind and deaf to it would hold me in good stead.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
