Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes

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Bruce Grobbelaar

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 6, 1957

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.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Greed is the worst thing.

Bruce Grobbelaar

When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I like to be in big open spaces with high skies.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I played behind Phil Thompson and Alan Hansen, and they were both brilliant centre-halves.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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.

Bruce Grobbelaar

If war teaches you anything, it is an appreciation of being alive.

Bruce Grobbelaar

You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Governments cannot interfere in football matters - Fifa suspends countries for that.

Bruce Grobbelaar

The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my 'spaghetti legs' routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I'm happy to be alive and to play any sport and, really, I wouldn't mind working for a living and playing at weekends.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

Bruce Grobbelaar

In the Eighties I was brash. I said things and it upset a lot of people.

Bruce Grobbelaar

An injured Gerrard is still better than many fully-fit players.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I will never apologise for laughing at life and enjoying football.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I can only say sorry for the past. I can't change it.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I've likened Mignolet to worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

Bruce Grobbelaar