Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kasper Schmeichel

You can never replicate the pressure you're under in a game.

My world, the world that I have grown up in, is very different. I have had intrusions from the outside since the day I was born because of my dad. Always wanting to talk to you. A lot of players only get that when they turn pro so the first 18 years of their life were the same as any other person's.

In this life, you end up getting what you deserve.

Opposition fans try to get under my skin by singing, 'You'll never be your father' - and they are quite right, I never will be as good as him. But I would still love to make a name for myself, aim to play at the highest level possible, and prove that sons who follow their dads into the same business need not walk in their shadows.

You look at situations like Thibaut Courtois and Petr Cech at Chelsea, two of the best goalkeepers in the world at the same club, one of them's going to be unhappy.

Manuel Neuer changed the game completely, probably back in about 2010 at the World Cup. He had been playing as a sweeper keeper before but it was something completely new to see it to that extent for Bayern Munich and for Germany. Both his coaches, Joachim Low and Pep Guardiola; they utilised the fact that he was brave enough to do that.

I am happy with how my career has gone. What other people want to make of it is irrelevant to me.

From the beginning of my time in football, the common thread has always been teamwork and togetherness. That's what's going to help you achieve your goals in the end.

It's a lonely position and those are the margins you play in as a goalkeeper - you simply cannot make mistakes because you will be punished.

I'm happy to talk to anybody but do it in the right manner.

You can train all you want but when the pressure's on it's a tough situation and anyone who has the nerve to step up and take one has my utmost respect.

My wife and I have already set up a charity back in Denmark - Fodbold Fonden - and now, through Common Goal, I have a great opportunity to give back in other areas of the world as well.

That is the just the beauty of football - anything can happen.

A clean sheet is always nice but I'd rather win 2-1 than get a 0-0.

So the difference between goalkeepers and outfielders is the little, tiny, minute details which are the difference and when they go against you, they are really glaring and they will be spotted.

When you're a kid you want to be a striker, you want to be scoring goals. I still want to be scoring goals! It's the easiest part of football, no it's not, it's the best part of football - the one you enjoy the most. But I always knew that my particular skill set was more suited to being a goalkeeper.

I tend not to listen to pundits.

I came across a picture of myself back at Old Trafford stood next to the Premier League trophy. One of my friends said to me, 'Do you honestly think you will ever win it?' I said I had dreamed about it, but wasn't sure. He said, 'If you don't believe it, it will never happen.' From that moment I said I would believe it could happen one day.

The loan spells were great, I always pushed for them.

Even when I was down in the fourth division with Bury at 19, fighting off relegation, training in a local park with dogs running around everywhere, literally stepping over broken bottles to take a goal kick - I was learning.

He has nothing to do with me and football really. I don't see any need for us to start talking about football. Some players have relationships with their fathers where they talk football and get into arguments about it. It is something we have never done. It is just a natural thing, he is my dad and not my coach.

For me the important thing is I have four honest lads in front of me who give their everything.

Two years of uncertainty is tough for anyone and having everyone call your ability into question is bound to be tough.

The only thing I do is to try to play my own game and be myself.

To win four games in a row at any point in the season for any team in the Premier League is a great achievement.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. It is about recognising what you do have and being grateful for what you do have.

I can only have admiration for the Irish as a nation.

When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and glamour, there's nowhere near the amount of money there is at the top level. People's livelihoods are on the line, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people.

The crazy thing about my story is that I only came to Leicester City because Leeds didn't want me. A lot of footballers say that, and it's almost a cliche. But the chairman literally told me that they didn't want me.

I was doing, in my eyes, nothing at Manchester City. You can train all day but it comes down to match situations when you go out on loan to lower league clubs.

You'll make mistakes, but if you make mistakes by trying to do the right things, then they're mistakes that most coaches and most teammates can accept.

I might not be very approachable because through my whole life, from when I was eight years old, I had people camping behind my goal and hearing the whispers, 'It's Peter Schmeichel's son.'

For me, pressure is part of the game, that I really enjoy.

The FA Cup has a special place in our family's hearts because my dad won it three times with Manchester United.

I hated getting to a Saturday and not having a game. For me it was about playing.

You come across very few people in your life that really impact you.

Pressure does things to people.

No one asks the players' opinions. They tell us the rules but they won't listen to us.

One of my biggest goals is to not be remembered as just a footballer.

The way Ederson plays is so brave. To dare to play like that is bravery and it also enables City to play with a much higher press. They are able to really press because they know any ball in behind he will sweep up.

The family are the people who see you day in day out through all the bad times as well.

As a player you appreciate a manager who can maybe compromise a bit in his own ways for the good of the team.

People see you for 90 minutes a week, they don't see the all the effort and time that goes into the weekend.

Relegation means everything to a club, a city, a whole community. People lose their jobs.

I have no bad feelings towards Leeds. The fans were amazing and I hope, for their sake especially, that they get what they deserve.

Football was so over-awing, so intense, just everything in your life. You couldn't go anywhere, really, with my dad and the circus around football became too much for me at a young age. I fell back in love with it probably around 13-14. It was much to do with the camaraderie, the team-work and being part of a team.

My dad was a fantastic keeper and I am extremely proud of his achievements.

It was part of my dream when I was a kid to become a footballer, is to have that pressure, to be the man who is going to be there when everything is on the line.

I first heard about Common Goal through Juan Mata and knew it was something I'd be interested in.

When I was a kid and my dad was playing for Man United, I used to stand behind the goal watching Eric Cantona, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Mark Hughes, Andrei Kanchelskis, Ryan Giggs... and I used to try to save all their shots that went wide, imagining I was deciding the title for United.

You enter every competition wanting to go as far as you can.

I used to love Mark Clattenburg.

When you're a manager it's different from being a coach.

You have got to dream big.

The important statistic is the number of games you win.

The pressure of being a goalkeeper is one of those things that attracts a lot of people to the position, if you don't have that, if you don't enjoy that pressure, I don't think you're suited to playing goalkeeper. It's about being strong mentally, being able to see the difference between making honest mistake and silly mistakes.

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience.

Clean sheets is a misleading statistic. It gives you the platform to win a game but you can lead 5-0 and concede a goal.

If you have got pace and awareness of where you want the ball and where you want to go yourself, you are getting in positions behind defenders and that is what defenders want the least.

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.