Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Schmeichel - Page 2

Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.

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

When I hit 35, there were things I couldn't do which I'd done previously, and they had been completely natural to me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

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.

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.

Today, the biggest clubs in the world, they buy the players they need for whatever way they think they have to play.

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.

At the end of the day, it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

You have to bear in mind where Louis van Gaal has worked before. His self-belief is bigger than Jose Mourinho's.

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

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.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

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?

Goalkeeping is very, very much about confidence and thinking you are the man.

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

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.

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

Obviously, I would very much like to see Cristiano Ronaldo back at Old Trafford.

With a club like Manchester United that have history and traditions, I think the manager at the club should respect that.

I really want to get involved in football again at some point. I know I'm getting older, but my life has just turned out a different way after I retired from football.

In three weeks, you can improve a lot. You can train a lot. You can come up with a proper plan.

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

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.

The thing about being a striker is you need to be lightning-fast.

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.

Joe Hart has bags and bags of talent.

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.

Every player makes mistakes; every goalkeeper makes mistakes. Every manager does, every broadcaster - every person in life makes mistakes. But for goalkeepers, often when they make a mistake, it leads to a goal.

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.

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.

I admire David De Gea. I cannot remember anyone coming into Manchester United and being criticised the way he was. He was the subject of every debate in the media. You haven’t seen De Gea defend himself in the media or shifting the blame elsewhere. He just gets on with it.

In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.

Everyone of us should emulate him. We can all learn from Paul Scholes.