Top 122 Locker Room Quotes

I got a concussion on the final play of a game, and I don’t remember leaving the field. No one helped me off the field. Apparently I was on my feet and I just followed the crowd of players into the locker room. I don’t know where I was or what I did for 10 minutes.

I’m used to locker room banter, and I can have fun with that side of things.

Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that’s disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don’t want to see that happen.

There are a lot of things about playing football that I miss. More than anything, I miss competing. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the locker room and the huddle and those kinds of things.

Backstage, I do my own thing and have my own spots in the locker room, so environmentally, it’s not very different for me. But the backstage environments are vastly different, but that is mainly because of the personalities.

What we do at the end of every season – which is why it’s probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor’s locker room after the final game – we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.

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

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.

The internet is like a gossipy girls’ locker room after school, isn’t it?

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

I know one thing, after the match with Savage at Wrestlemania III, I was gassed. I went back to the locker room and fell on the floor.

The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls ‘the integrity of the game.’ The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.

I am not one of these guys that looks to the locker room and points fingers. That has never been my MO.

Frankly I’ve been in these situations where the locker room wasn’t good. That’s really the worst of times.

I have great respect for Coach Morris. I always have. But I’m excited for what Coach Schiano is bringing to our team and what he’ll bring to our community and what he will bring to the players in the locker room.

There was a match in Alaska that I had with Beth Phoenix at a house show where we had a standing ovation from Ric Flair, Triple H, John Cena, and Arn Anderson. I got to work with her so much that we knew each other’s body language. Got a standing ovation from the entire locker room. It was amazing.

I think it makes the game much easier to play once you have a good cohesion off the court. I think that’s big because you come into a locker room at the NBA level, there’s so much emotion, so much pride in the locker room.

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser’s locker room.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don’t want to have guys that don’t feel comfortable in the locker room.

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?’

The locker room I don’t think is a huge place for guys to really, you know, talk politics.

I’ve always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I’d sign the 50 kids before anything else.

I love to sew in the hotel room. I even sew in the locker room sometimes.

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.

For us as coaches, we’re in a different locker room. So we’re coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.

You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it’s not just locker room. It’s practice field. It’s on and off the field. It’s on Sunday, and it’s on game days.

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That’s the kind of locker room we have.

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

Some of my best childhood memories are of watching Terrell Davis with my dad. I used to hang out when I was, like, 4 and 5 years old and play Power Rangers in the locker room with him and Shannon Sharpe and Rod Smith. And I loved Terrell. He was awesome.

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.

I would like to be remembered as the guy who worked hard every night and set an example for the other guys in the locker room and girls in the locker room.

I don’t think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it’s just as much the players’ fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

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.

The last thing you want to see is your great players in the press box or in the locker room.

That’s something that’s so often overlooked in this game – the dynamics of the locker room.

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.

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.

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.

When you play sports, when you’re on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after each other and count on each other, race and all that stuff goes out the window when you are in the locker room.

It’s a business. Everybody treats it like a business. You love playing football, you love being around the locker room, and that’s really the most important thing for me.

The music before the game, they’re playing old-school music and it’s right above your locker room and you’re like, ‘These people are crazy, man. This is pretty cool.’ I’m sure it has an effect, but after a few minutes, it’s just basketball.

I love the game of football, love getting better. My teammates know me, and I show them who I am in the locker room and don’t change on the field.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don’t have to change it when they show up to work that day.

When WWE announced that the women’s division will be getting Tag Team Championships, I don’t think there was a girl in the locker room who wasn’t totally pumped.

Among the many things that I loved about playing football was sitting around the locker room with teammates and poking fun at each other with sophomoric slams, each one more ridiculous than the next.

It’s certainly a different feel in the locker room after the game when you win.

That’s the big thing – having the other guys’ respect in the locker room. You can’t come in with no respect and try to own the place.

I never wanted to be that guy that acted like I wasn’t in the locker room and then all of a sudden I was an analyst. I played the game. I’ve been through the bumps and bruises, the politics. When I give an opinion, I want it to be real.

I shouldn’t have to come out and say, ‘Hey, I should be a starter again.’ There’s a lot of guys that say that, that shouldn’t be starters. The key is to go out on the field and lead your team to show people that, ‘Hey, this guy is a good guy in the locker room. He can lead a team. He did it on the field. He’s shown it.’