Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes

How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?

Coach OB is fun to play for. He's very tough on you. He wants you to be successful.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

I want to feel the team is playing like I want. If not, why am I here?

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

I would be a very demanding coach. I wouldn't yell and scream, but I want players that want what I want. And that's why I couldn't coach, 'cause I know how hard it is and I know how hard I want you to play. But everyone's not going to do what I want.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I am a marquee player and certainly that means a lot of responsibility.

Honestly, I don't know the word 'pressure,' because football is my job. I always enjoy it.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

Success doesn't motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'

There were a small number of voices that said, 'Darvish only cares about strikeouts.' Although I may have had strikeouts in my mind, fans, team, teammates and team staff were always my top priority.

I love a challenge and when a new centre-back comes in it makes you raise your game. You have to show more, you have to be more consistent.

Every day, I have to work and show the coach I work well and I deserve my place.

Our demands are very high, very great, but I want to ask every player every day to give us more.