Quotes from Bruce Grobbelaar

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

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.

Jurgen Klopp is Shankly reincarnated in a German body, because he gets the people.

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.

Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If players' hearts aren't in it, they can jump in the Mersey as far as I'm concerned.

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.

Greed is the worst thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

There was a tradition of keepers at Anfield to play as a sweeper, going back to Tommy Lawrence under Bill Shankly.

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

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.

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.