Words matter. These are the best Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If players’ hearts aren’t in it, they can jump in the Mersey as far as I’m concerned.
Jurgen Klopp is Shankly reincarnated in a German body, because he gets the people.
Just because you’ve made a mistake… everybody makes mistakes. It’s how you come out of it.
On a given day, if you go into town to a little quiet pub or restaurant you might be sitting next to Jurgen Klopp – that’s the type of person he is. You might see him out. He is one for the people.
In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you’re going to get the foul.
Souness could do everything.
People think that because I was at Liverpool for such a long time – in a period where the club was very successful – that it was bliss all the way.
Liverpool is a family, it is not a club, you don’t come in and out of this club without it leaving a mark.
Jurgen Klopp was very astute in seeing Keita’s ability and potential to develop.
You’re as good as your last game, and that’s how you get over it in any walk of life.
If you asked all the goalkeepers in my era, they will tell you that they were worth a lot more than the price they were bought.
I’ve seen a life many, many footballers had never seen.
If you can make the players better, that’s what I’m about.
Going through my time as a coach in Zimbabwe and in South Africa, I know for a fact if there is anything dodgy in a game, look at the three people in black. They are the catalyst.
I still have dreams about Hillsborough. Well, nightmares, anyway.
If you can stay alive and enjoy life, that’s the whole heart and soul of life. That’s why I played with a smile on my face all these years.
I mentioned that Mignolet is bad at coming for crosses and as soon as that went into the newspapers, he got better.
There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly.
The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.
Any goalkeeper that’s going to play for Liverpool is going to be looked at and scrutinised – every shot, everything about it is going to be scrutinised.
You can’t put your arm around the referee! That’s ungentlemanly conduct.
I coached five clubs in South Africa and I was successful with them.
Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven’t had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.
I have been called a clown in football – but if I don’t go onto the field with a laugh and smile, I shouldn’t be doing it.
Mohamed Salah, well if you go to Egypt he is a god there.
I’m in the gym every morning.
Liverpool had African players from the ’50s and ’60s. There were goalkeepers in the early days from South Africa. Then in 1981 there was a guy who came to Anfield. They say ‘who is this guy’ and it is me; I am African.
If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It’s like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.
If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.
The surname Grobbelaar is roughly translated in English from original Dutch as ‘clumsy,’ so I think I was struggling from the start to rid myself of the clown tag that plagued me throughout my career.
I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.
Roma must have been mad to sell Mo Salah. Either that or they really needed the money.
Liverpool manager Bob Paisley signed me from Crewe in 1981. We were the champions in my first season and I went on to win many honours.
For Premier League games, you get people coming from all over, paying big money to get into the games as part of a weekend away.
It can be daunting playing in front of the Kop.
I played behind Phil Thompson and Alan Hansen, and they were both brilliant centre-halves.
When I left the army, I left for good.
Cash is king in Africa.
With Keita, he will hunt you down, get the ball, then ‘either get in the box and score or he has the same type of ‘passing range Philippe Coutinho had in the final delivery.
We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people – that we were superior.
I’ve always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental ‘keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he’ll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal.
When Jurgen Klopp came to Liverpool I was ecstatic. I knew his pedigree and what he did at Borussia Dortmund. What a job he did there.
I’ll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.
When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.
On the European nights, the corporate fans from overseas can’t get tickets. It’s mainly local fans. That’s why the atmosphere is so great and the passion is so strong.