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That’s right. Didn’t score on me last half won’t score on this half. I’m a ninja. Ninja Goalie.

— Justin  ·  She's the Man

A football wearing a pink and green knitted scarf sits on a patch of grass beside a red whistle.
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The speaker confidently claims that nobody scored on them in the first half and nobody will in the second. The escalation into declaring themselves a ninja, then a ninja goalie, makes the swagger comically inflated. It is bravado delivered with total commitment.

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