Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

Shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.

Hundreds of policemen and detectives, swinging nightsticks, blackjacks, and bare fists, rushed into the crowd, hitting out at all with whom they came into contract, chasing many across the street and into adjacent thoroughfares and pushing hundreds off their feet. From all parts of the scene of battle came the screams of women and cries of men with bloody heads and faces.

The situation with Anders Frisk is clear: he was threatened by the supporters of Chelsea, and he retired because he was in fear. This is serious.

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.

The past is what you take with you.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Remembrance of things past.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans. You can be passionate about a show, but I don't think that people are obsessed to the point where it's so manic that they lose themselves and they lose a sense of their center of morality.