Bruce Grobbelaar Quotes

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

I started to practise shooting more seriously, more than once a week. I wasn't very good at it before, but I got a lot better. I've also become a little bit stronger on the tracks, too, which has increased my chances of success.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

I think in running, to be honest, that even though athletes are very dedicated and are willing to train and do whatever they need to do to prepare, more often than not they're not in a very professional environment where you've got a high performance director and a coach that are really monitoring your daily activities.

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

In a Congressional Hearing, when the red light of the television camera came on it had the effect of a full moon on weir wolves.

As long as I'm playing week in week out, I'm going to become a better player.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.

Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.