Peter Schmeichel Quotes

The spectacular things come automatically if you're a good goalkeeper, but it's very important that you do all the basics right.

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

What goalkeeper doesn't like a little action?

The quality of goalkeepers is very good in the Premier League - and you have to be good at using your feet.

Bravo, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and Jordi Masip are three goalkeepers of the highest quality.

I want to stop goals going in the net.

Each of the top goalkeepers has a particular quality to teach me. I look at Diego Lopez, Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, Gianluigi Buffon... they all have tremendous experience and ability, and have spent years proving they are the best.

Alisson is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers in the world and he deserves to be put on that pedestal. Him and Manuel Neuer are probably the best two when it comes to angles - those two are the very best in the world at getting their angles right, they don't have to dive because they aren't out of position.

I think it's important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that's great. It's the main base as a goalkeeper.

As a goalkeeper it's so important to be in the right position to come and clear those through balls, to make those right decisions.

The goalkeeper position is not an easy one. You can only speak about it if you are a goalkeeper yourself.

Often, there are fallacies when a journalist or a fan and sometimes even a coach who has never been a goalkeeper sees a cross in the six-yard box and says he should come out.

I want to become the best person as a goalkeeper I can be.

We need to give our goalkeepers the same level of training that we've given to our outfield players.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.

Every goalkeeper has their own strong points and qualities. What I like to do is focus on every keeper. You can pick bits out of every keeper where they are particularly strong, and you can learn from things like that.

It's one of my stronger points claiming high balls. I'm tall, so that helps me. If you're a smaller goalkeeper, crosses in England are even harder.

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?

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.

I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

It's normal that a club like Barcelona need more than one top-level goalkeeper.

I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.