83 Quotes by Bruce Grobbelaar

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    I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

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    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.

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    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.

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    We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people - that we were superior.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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