Peter Schmeichel Quotes

Peter Schmeichel

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 18, 1963

It is very nice Kasper has now also won the Premier League, too. I am very proud; I think he has done a fantastic job. It has been amazing to bring this lad into the world and bring him up and hear his wishes and hopes for the future, his ambitions; he made it fairly clear early on that he wanted to become a footballer.

Peter Schmeichel

Joe Hart has bags and bags of talent.

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I was one of the first foreign players coming in to the Premier League.

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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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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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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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You will not get anywhere if you are not a great team. It's simple.

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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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The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

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You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

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The AON Training Complex is not a training ground now: it's a village. It is difficult for anyone to keep tabs on everything.

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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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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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When you have a way of playing or a mentality of playing, it's difficult to do something else.

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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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People talk about the hair dryer and all this with Sir Alex Ferguson. What was really great about him, whatever happened in a game, he would spend whatever minutes it took him to get this out of this system and say whatever needed to be said. Once he said, 'Get your bath,' that was it. We knew that it would never return.

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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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Even when I went to Aston Villa, it was very important that I was not in competition with Manchester United.

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Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.

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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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