A football wearing a pink and green knitted scarf sits on a patch of grass beside a red whistle.

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Justin

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

— She's the Man  ·  2006

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What it means

Our interpretation.

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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