Peter Schmeichel Quotes

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

I've saved a few penalties; I'm good at them.

It's obviously very tough for any team to lose on penalties.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

If they hadn't scored, we would've won.

I want to stop goals going in the net.

I don't really like all these tactical systems people talk about: 3-5-2, 4-3-3, and all that.

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

In Italy... people think that they can win matches with only systems. I say this is impossible because, otherwise, there wouldn't be players that cost 100 million euros and others who cost 1 million.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.

Two goals away from home is very good.

Any time you give up two shorthanded goals, you're not usually going to win.

No one would ever take Messi out of a match if the teams are evenly matched. But it can be done in matches where we take a big lead. This way, he can preserve his fitness.

Losing is incentivized now. You have 80 percent of the teams trying to lose.

I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

It doesn't matter what the game is or against who, it is good to play at home.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

The number 9 has to be the one who scores the goals.