Peter Schmeichel Quotes

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I have no regrets about leaving, and I don't miss being

I have no regrets about leaving, and I don’t miss being at United at all.
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If you are not a good team, you will never get to the final day of the Premier League season or the final of the FA Cup.
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When you have a way of playing or a mentality of playing, it’s difficult to do something else.
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I, as a fan, want to be winning but to entertain equally as much, too.
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Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.
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Any beginning is difficult, but when you’re opening the newspaper every day, and it’s all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.
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It’s far, far better to be prepared: the more you know about the other team, the better.
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I played handball up until I joined United, both as a goalkeeper and an outfield player.
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Joe Hart has come in for a bit of criticism, but it’s only because he‘s the England goalkeeper, and he’s not got any competition. It’s always been like that; it’s just the way the English media works. Joe Hart is a tough cookie, and he won‘t listen to any of that.
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The fear of letting people down – that’s the drive. Sir Alex, I think, if he was brave enough to say it, he would say the same, but in his eyes, the motivating factor is that you want to be the best.
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You will never see United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the media taking problems he has or the squad has or the club has into the open. Never, ever. But you do see that at Manchester City.
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At the end of the day, it’s 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.
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Neuer is simply sensational.
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Goalkeeping is very, very much about confidence and thinking you are the man.
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Manchester United would like to have world class players.
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Penalty shoot-outs are the most high-pressure situation that a goalkeeper will face, and in a World Cup, it’s even worse because the stakes are so high.
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Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.
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Football has changed. There are no more Zvonimir Bobans or individuals who win games by themselves.
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I want exciting players.
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I am crazy about Leicester; I am crazy about the owners – they are fantastic and really good for the Premier League.
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Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.
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It’s not the mistake that’s important; it’s how you recover from it. If you recover instantly, in that second, it’s gone from your mind. You play on and don’t make the next mistake, and that’s the sign of a top keeper. Joe Hart certainly is one of those guys.
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Neuer is the world’s No.1 keeper and can be used as a role model for all young keepers. He has everything a goalkeeper needs to have.
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For Zlatan to play the way we love him to play, he has to be Zlatan.
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When you’re young, you want to do everything. You want to go out and find girls; you want to have a drink – there are a lot of things you want to do. But if you want to make it to the top, there are a lot of things you can’t do.
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It all comes down to which way you hit the post. Do you hit it on the inside or the outside? Does it go in, or does it go out?
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As a footballer, you have to be confident you can win all the time so it does not come as a surprise.
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Neuer is the best goalkeeper in the world by far.
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People remember the treble in 1999 as if we only had to turn up to collect three trophies. But on that cup run, we were 1-0 down against Liverpool going into injury time, and we turned it around to win 2-1. And everyone remembers the Champions League final in Barcelona, where the same thing happened.
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At United, everyone is there because they want to be there.
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With a club like Manchester United that have history and traditions, I think the manager at the club should respect that.
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The thing about being a striker is you need to be lightning-fast.
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The big clubs will always talk about the same names such as Ancelotti, Mourinho, and Wenger. Louis Van Gaal is always in there as well. He has his own style and is a very determined man. He knows exactly what he wants. He’s got direction, the ability and experience at big clubs such as Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
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I want to see Pogba being a Manchester United player and being as good as everything else he does in life. He’s absolutely brilliant on social media, and he’s projecting himself to be this incredibly modern player.
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It’s always going to be difficult for Asian countries to create big leagues because Europe is so settled.
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Sometimes you’ve just got to hold your hands up and say you’ve been beaten by a quality free-kick.
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When I arrived at Manchester United, the club hadn’t won the league for 26 years, and then in my first year, they won the championship.
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During a big tournament, it is the small details that make big differences.
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When you look at the goals he has been criticised for, at some point they could have been prevented by a defender, or it was a misunderstanding. It is not down to Joe Hart on his own.
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Football is a team sport. I’m proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn’t have achieved any of it without the support of my team-mates. I played with great players, great managers, and in great teams.
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I’m quite good at golf. I’m not amazing, but I play a lot.
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I am very proud to join the Hall of Fame.
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I don’t think spending money is a guarantee for anything.
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If you’re a senior player, and you really want to make an impact in the dressing room, it’s difficult if you have players there who are not as committed as you are and they have a certain status.
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In the future, you’ll see many more nominations for big awards going to goalkeepers.
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I read about Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the newspapers. I would love for him to come to Manchester United; I’ve said this for a long time. He was born to play for Manchester United.
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You have to believe you can win.
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On some occasions, it is every footballer’s dream to play for the national team, but if you don’t reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn’t reach if you didn’t have this as a goal.
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Kids want to play in goal.
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It is important that Manchester United keeps its identity. Their heritage is to produce and develop players, something that started with Sir Matt and continued with Sir Alex Ferguson.
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Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.
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If you have been brought up with attacking and trying to get to number two, number three, number four goal, not getting one goal and defend, if that’s sort of the mentality that’s engraved in you, it’s really difficult to do the other thing.
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You can’t do anything successfully in life without leadership.
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I was one of the first foreign players coming in to the Premier League.
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Goalkeeping is now at a point where it’s a very popular position.
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When David De Gea first came to the Premier League, he was a small boy.
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If we should have any regrets as Manchester United, that is that we only gave David Moyes seven months. I think we should have given him more time, accepted that results weren’t going to be the way we hoped they would be and that playing would be a little bit different. I believe he would have grown into that role.
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If you’re mentally ready, you’re willing to go the extra mile.
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I think Manchester United is a much bigger club than any manager in the world, and the manager who comes in should respect what Manchester United is.
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I have had a fantastic career with United, and I owe it to the club, players, and fans to do everything I can to finish on a successful note.
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To have an 18-year-old coming to you demanding money before he’s even played – that has got to be frustrating for a manager to deal with.
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If he is having a bad game, a team-mate might feel Paul Scholes is not quite on his game, but a spectator wouldn’t notice. Scholes, of all the players I have played with, has the highest bottom level.
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The star-jump technique – that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance.
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I would have come to play at United for absolutely nothing if I’d been given the chance – everyone I played with at the time would have done that, too.
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I am a massive fan of Wayne Rooney, and it is nice to see him play in any position because he gives a 100 per cent. Not many players can do that and say they do that.
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Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.
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To be a Manchester United player, it requires a certain level of performance, mentality, and you have got to be proud to be a Manchester United player.
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We never played for 1-0 and then defend. We always went for the second goal and the third.
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There’s no doubt: nobody can argue that Manchester United is not the biggest club in the world. It is.
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Joe Hart has bags and bags of talent.
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