ourselves

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“It was either ‘give us stats we can use to make ourselves look good’ or ‘give us the stats to show how bad things are in this area,’” Gordon said.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

“The times that were hard for me were things that she wrote about that I felt we should have worked out ourselves first. They were still raw.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“We’re going to ask ourselves why. Why we weren’t ready. What didn’t we do? The excuses really don’t matter. We’ve got to be way better than we were tonight.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

When the fixtures against Uruguay and Japan were announced, Tuchel said "we wanted to play two teams ranked in the top 20 in the world and test ourselves against opponents from outside of Europe".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Then we just went hungry, and those were the days, with no food inside us, when it was hardest to keep ourselves warm, even if we could manage to make a fire.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo