Top 130 Locker Quotes

On teams that have won championships and got to the big game, there’s a certain vibe and feel in that locker room. Everyone talks about how there’s a brotherhood in that locker room, there’s not a lot of dissent, there’s not guys that go off on their own. It’s a team atmosphere.

I’ve definitely got longer passing in my locker and you can bring that out more when you’re playing in that No 8 position.

I think NXT is kind of like the Cleveland, Ohio, of professional wrestling. We’re that underdog whose hungry, who’s always out to prove people wrong, and that’s kind of what our locker room represents.

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don’t know – at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

You look at the NBA: there’s all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they’re in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn’t teach kids how to play. We’ve got these workout coaches that don’t teach kids how to play basketball.

I trained with a locker room and roster full of men, and we were all a family, and they all took care of me like their little sister. It’s what I want out of a locker room. I think it helps the locker room, and it’s a part of the success of the NXT women’s division.

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 so every time I step on the field I’m going to do me. I’m going to go hard for the guys in the locker room.

It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.

Anthony Mackie in ‘The Hurt Locker’ is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

There were times that we’d be in the locker room there before everyone else, and a guy would walk in, say, ‘Is this the Kliq locker room?’ So we’d draw with a sharpie on the back of a program and write ‘Kliq locker room’. I can promise you that none of those signs were ever on WWE letterhead.

At Wimbledon there is a golf putting machine to play on in the locker room.

It’s football, you know the locker room is going to change.

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.

I think any success you can have on the tennis court, doubles helps. If you’re playing on the weekend, you’re in the trophy ceremony at the end of it, one of the last guys in the locker room, it can only give you confidence.

I do feel that AEW is similar to TNA in the sense of the young locker room and in the same way that TNA back in the day had these guys hadn’t had that opportunity on the national spotlight.

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

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

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 don’t want to be in a locker room with someone that we draft that’s kind of a prima donna or, you know, thinks they’re bigger than the team. Those are two things that I don’t do well with.

I’m a competitive guy, very. I don’t like saying that about myself but people in the locker room say that about me. But I’m a competitive person and the GM, the coaches, those guys, they wouldn’t like it if I was happy not to be playing.

I have spent my last few years training and aggressively becoming the best wrestler that I can and I will continue to do that but at the same time I’ve been in every major locker room of the professional wrestling world.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.

I don’t know all the inner workings of the Miami Dolphins locker room, but I do know the pain of being different, the sadness that accompanies not fitting in and the hopeless feeling of having no one to turn to, because it’s part of my story as well.

There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow’s work: ‘The Hurt Locker’ serves up a military equivalent of the thrill-trips that Lenny Nero was hustling in her earlier ‘Strange Days.’

My locker is a business place. I keep my locker really neat, which I think is different than most people.

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

My mom gets mad because she’ll read on Twitter or some message board that Spencer Paysinger is no good, and the Giants need to get rid of him. I tell her to stop reading that stuff because, at the end of the day, the media has no say on what happens in the locker room.

The Dream couldn’t tell you the vibe in the NXT locker room, because, quite frankly, I have my own. When you are a Superstar as high up on the totem pole as The Velveteen Dream, you have those luxuries.

I don’t change the way that I play. I love the game of basketball, man. I ride with these guys in this locker room. They know that. If I’ve got something to say to them, I will say it. You may not like the way that it comes across. That’s fine. But that’s who I am.

Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women’s sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It’s going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.

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.

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

To me, Roman Reigns was WWE’s version of Superman, and he was our locker room leader on ‘Raw.’

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.

I always love the locker rooms that I end up in.

About 10 percent of the time, I miss 3 to 5 percent of the game. I look back, and I’m happy that I played. I’m not wistful. You miss big games. I miss the locker room camaraderie. Sometimes I miss the lifestyle.

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.

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.’

Our biggest thing in the locker room is to just have fun and stay loose.

Once I started to retire, I was telling all of the girls in my generation, ‘Wow I feel like an outsider in this locker room because this whole new generation of women has stepped in,’ and that was one of the signs where I said maybe it’s time to retire.

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.

It wasn’t that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren’t shared by anyone. Girls didn’t like me, and I had few friends.

There’s a certain reason why certain people win because they have a winning mentality and they bring it into the locker room, into the gym every single day. You can’t have enough of those people.

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.

Using the term ‘locker room talk’ blurs the line between what is criminal and what is simply oafish. That’s not a line anyone should want blurred.

I think you get a lot of life experiences and they all get dumped in a locker room and they say ‘Hey, spend 10 months a year with each other.’ That’s a great example that just because you have different backgrounds and you may be staunchly on the other side on different issues, it doesn’t mean that you can’t cohabitate.

As a former competitive athlete and a mother to a daughter who is a D1 collegiate athlete, I staunchly oppose biological males in girls/women’s sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms.