Quotes from Kasper Schmeichel

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Giggs is an idol - I don't think there's any other words for him. What he achieved at Manchester United, and what he achieved in football, is unparalleled.

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.

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.

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

You have got to dream big.

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

That is something a lot of managers want to do - they bring their own people and do everything their own way.

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.

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