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

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.

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War Sports Your

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.

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Men Great World

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

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Life UN Too

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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Car Art Translated

I still have dreams about Hillsborough. Well, nightmares, anyway.

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Dreams Well Way

You can't put your arm around the referee! That's ungentlemanly conduct.

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Your You UN

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.

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Age You T

Just because you've made a mistake... everybody makes mistakes. It's how you come out of it.

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You Very Use

You're as good as your last game, and that's how you get over it in any walk of life.

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Life Good Your

Rotation should be natural and changes should be made only when there are injuries and suspensions.

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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.

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Great Why Verse

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.

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I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.

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Twice T Steve

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

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Space Wit T

Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.

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Pet T Seen

Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.

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People ask me why I can still smile on the pitch when we're losing. I tell them that if you lose your smile and stop being happy, you should find yourself a plot in the graveyard.

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Smile Yourself Yours

If you're going to do a spaghetti legs routine where else but in Rome to do it. The home of spaghetti!

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Home You Where

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.

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Smile Wit T

Alisson is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers in the world and he deserves to be put on that pedestal. Him and Manuel Neuer are probably the best two when it comes to angles - those two are the very best in the world at getting their angles right, they don't have to dive because they aren't out of position.

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World Very Use

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

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Greed is the worst thing.

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

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

Bruce Grobbelaar

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.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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

Bruce Grobbelaar

If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I dream of going to coach in Europe and England once I have done my apprenticeship here in Africa.

Bruce Grobbelaar

I enjoyed 13 successful seasons at Anfield, becoming the most decorated goalkeeper in league history. But I believe the match-fixing scandal arose because the press did not like this person they perceived as arrogant and who had a reputation for clowning around in games. Goalkeepers aren't supposed to do that.

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

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

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

I've had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had a dart thrown at my back at Burnley. And potatoes with razor blades.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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

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If you ever look at my history of coaching in South Africa, no team has ever gone down. And I'm talking about places in the league. They've always gone up.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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

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

Jurgen Klopp was very astute in seeing Keita's ability and potential to develop.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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.

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Mohamed Salah, well if you go to Egypt he is a god there.

Bruce Grobbelaar

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.

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

It can be daunting playing in front of the Kop.

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

Alisson arrives at Liverpool with much more experience than De Gea had when he first went to United so I don't think there will be anyone out there who doesn't feel Alisson shouldn't be here.

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

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.

Bruce Grobbelaar

You can't worry about the game you've just played, because you can't do anything about it. And the next time you go onto the field, don't do what you did in the last game!

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