The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
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.
Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans.
If you can stay alive and enjoy life, that's the whole heart and soul of life. That's why I played with a smile on my face all these years.
Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
I was the hallway clown in high school.
It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
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.