Thaibox you are 100 percent right about grip beig a huge asset...think of it like this: hypothetically you could have the biggest lifts in the world but without grip strength they are useless...your grip is the point of contact of what you are trying to apply force to, in other words the grip is the force applicator, therefore the force applied can be no greater than the grip can withstand hence YOU ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS YOUR GRIP...
as far as developing grip strength my method has always been to never ever use wraps and I train olympic twice a week...the explosive movement in an olympic lift coupled with the fact that the grip must be applied through many different angles makes this the king of all grip builders