Peter Schmeichel Quotes

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

We've got to play better basketball.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

I always try to field the best team.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.

I try to distract with other things, but in my mind, it is always the game, especially the team, the shape, my players, what can I do, what is tomorrow, what can I give to them to improve them.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

You just play your game and find a way to win for your team.

I want to score in every game, play well, and set up goals.

My job is to coach the team and get them to try to play the best they can come April, May, and June.

We need to be always prepared for every match.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I don't think you ever will yourself to win. I think you prepare yourself the best you can, get yourself in the best mindset you can get in, and go after it.