Locker Room Quotes

#1. I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline.

Dez Bryant

#2. I've always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, 'Hey, get it going. Let's go.' Firing everybody up. So I'm part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Michael Strahan

#3. I let out a string of curses that would put even the boy's locker room to shame, ending with an emphatic kick to the mailbox post.And the worst part was of coure it wasn't there yet. My weird nerves all day were pointless.

Kiersten White

#4. If you can't joke about giant french ticklers and gas powered dildos in a fucking locker room then the terrorists win, E. Our freedoms are eroding. I'll pick up lube and condoms instead. Bring your hand. It's the only action you're getting.

Celia Aaron

#5. You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.

Luke Scott

#6. It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

Tomas Berdych

#7. My locker room is serious. It is quiet. No one smiles. I don't like people telling jokes in my locker room. Now is not a time to tell jokes. From the minute we leave my hotel room, do not fuck around. The time for fucking around is over. Some serious shit is about to happen.

Ronda Rousey

#8. Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh ... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

The Miz

#9. When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.

Earl Monroe

#10. You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

George Steinbrenner

#11. Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!

Dennis Miller

#12. The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Sammy Cahn

#13. I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

Larry Fitzgerald

#14. It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Brian Mulroney

#15. I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Keegan Bradley

#16. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.

Jon Gordon

#17. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#18. There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

Peter Berg

#19. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

Jane Leavy

#20. There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

John Starks

#21. Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Junior Seau

#22. With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

Andy Van Slyke

#23. If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Frank E. Peretti

#24. We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

Bob McNair

#25. Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

John Inverdale

#26. I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.

Mac Dre

#27. Fox does the NFL a lot like they program the rest of the network. There's sort of a locker room sense of humor that prevails. With ESPN, it's more like a pat-you-on-the-back kind of comedy. I mean, they'll all get on each other a little bit, but it's never mean-spirited.

Frank Caliendo

#28. A poster by the door to the locker room showed a Jackaroo avatar dressed as Uncle Sam, pointing a white-gloved finger under the caption I Want You for Anal Probing.

Paul McAuley

#29. In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

Roger Federer

#30. Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

Anna Quindlen

#31. The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

Danny Lyon

#32. Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

Nora Ephron

#33. I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

Shaquille O'Neal

#34. When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#35. As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

Steve Yzerman

#36. You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

Lamar Odom

#37. One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

Dean Smith

#38. I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.

Mia Hamm

#39. The only rule is that you can't cross this line. If the ball hits you, you're
out. If someone catches a ball you throw, you're out. We'll keep playing until there are five of you left," Dinkleman explained.
I thought to myself, "What the fuck? That was like, four rules, not one.

Phil Wohl

#40. So you want to tell me what a sixth grader was doing in the eighth-grade side of the locker room, in a eighth-grade fight?" he said.
"Winning," I said.

Gary D. Schmidt

#41. You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ass belongs to me.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#42. It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.

Kurt Warner

#43. The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Hunter S. Thompson

#44. I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Matt Flynn

#45. Hey, guys, I'm going to change," Tony announced. "You all need to get out of here for a little bit." "So fucking change. You change in the locker room all the time-what's the bug deal?" Slade asked. Tony groaned and his eyes narrowed at Slade. "Oh. Gotcha!" Slade turned and announced, "Everybody ...

Sidney Halston

#46. There was a kind of autumnal stain in the air that reminded me of the smell of leather work gloves, a high-school locker room at homecoming, the inside of an ancient canvas tent.

Michael Chabon

#47. I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

LeBron James

#48. And it's not like I'm the only guy in history to ever get a hard on in a high school locker room; for a lot of guys it's just a natural reaction to the cool moist air. But the trouble is that around certain guys, I'm radically reactionary.

Huston Piner

#49. Tori felt like she'd accidentally wandered into the men's locker room. Everywhere she looked there was rippling muscle. Testosterone hung thick in the air, and she had the overwhelming urge to chop some wood or fix a carburetor... maybe skin an animal or two.

Bethany K. Lovell

#50. In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

John Amaechi

#51. I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

Mac Dre

#52. I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.

Aaron Rodgers

#53. The locker room isn't porn for me / 'cause you're all too damned pimple-ey.

John Green

#54. The locker room has to be right. We've got to be patient to build this team.

Dwyane Wade

#55. I'm LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I'm not even supposed to be here. That's enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I'm blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don't matter. I ain't got no worries.

LeBron James

#56. We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

Amy Dumas

#57. When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

Shane Larkin

#58. You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

Don Meyer

#59. That all ended when Uncle Len was caught in the locker room of the corporate fitness center getting a blowjob from a young guy who worked in accounting.

Darien Cox

#60. I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.

Tarvaris Jackson

#61. I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Lenny Wilkens

#62. With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

LeBron James

#63. There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

Steve Yzerman

#64. You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

Junior Seau

#65. He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. "Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash," it said.

David Finkel

#66. I don't have any down days. If anybody who knows me comes into our locker room, they know I'm happy; they know I'm cheerful.

Darnell Dockett

#67. There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

Vince Lombardi

#68. We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

Bob McNair

#69. When I was a girl I creeped in the boys locker room
Hide deep inside, it was my little creep stalker room
As they disrobed I was oogling & oggling
Little did they know that for me they were modeling

Nicki Minaj

#70. Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great.

Ira Kaplan

#71. One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Derek Jeter

#72. The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.

Ray Lewis

#73. By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

Michael Strahan

#74. It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine titles. But it's nice to see her in the locker room, and she's smiling and she's happy for me. She's really cheering for me. It's nice to have someone like her.

Petra Kvitova

#75. The locker room is like taking the subway after midnight: Chances are you are going to be fine, but you never know who is going to pull their dick out.

Dom Mazzetti

#76. I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

Kathryn Sansone

#77. I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

Aaron Douglas

#78. I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.

Allen Iverson

#79. Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

Angelo Dundee

#80. I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

Natalie Coughlin

#81. I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

Maria Sharapova

#82. She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch.

Nenia Campbell

#83. Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

Christine Pelosi

#84. All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

Chandler Parsons

#85. No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Muhammad Ali

#86. I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'

Caroline Knapp

#87. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

Luke Scott

#88. They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

John Feinstein

#89. The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Alex Kapranos

#90. I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

Walt Frazier

#91. When the whistle blows, I'm completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.

Tim Howard

#92. I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

Vera Wang

#93. I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

Jane Blalock

#94. When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything ... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

Albert Belle

#95. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.

Dave Barry

#96. You win by cultivating the right culture, leadership, expectations, beliefs, mindset, relationships, and habits before you even play the game. You win in the locker room first. Then, you win on the field.

Jon Gordon

#97. Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these folks are talking about over here.' Then you could sneak into Rams cheerleaders' locker room.

Nelly

#98. Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#99. As the class went through the Greeks and the Romans and the Renaissance painters, (who were easy enough to remember if you'd ever seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) there was more dick on display than in a locker room.

K.A. Mitchell

#100. It's just good to be back in the locker room.

William Green