Bruce Grobbelaar
"The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"I mentioned that Mignolet is bad at coming for crosses and as soon as that went into the newspapers, he got better."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"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."
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
"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."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"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."
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
"Just because you've made a mistake... everybody makes mistakes. It's how you come out of it."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"You're as good as your last game, and that's how you get over it in any walk of life."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"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."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Jurgen Klopp is Shankly reincarnated in a German body, because he gets the people."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Liverpool is a family, it is not a club, you don't come in and out of this club without it leaving a mark."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"I played behind Phil Thompson and Alan Hansen, and they were both brilliant centre-halves."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"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
"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."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save."
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
"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
"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
"Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"Governments cannot interfere in football matters - Fifa suspends countries for that."
Bruce Grobbelaar
"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."
Bruce Grobbelaar
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