Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.
Some of the most controversial things I’ve said about President Trump, I’ve heard from Republicans. But it’s just that I’ve heard them in the locker room. That’s what people actually talk about in the locker room – how terrible our president is.
A lot of what you get done in the NFL is by perception. They perceive you as really talented, and they worry about you. You’ve got to come out of the locker room with something.
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.
I was the security guard that got stationed directly outside the Eagles locker room or on the field. I don’t even know what I did. But there was Jon Gruden, Ray Rhodes, Emmitt Thomas, Danny Smith, all those guys that are legends of the game.
I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in ‘The Hurt Locker.’
I don’t spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That’s my least favourite place in the world.
I’m always going to be passionate about the guys we have in the locker room because they’ve always been OK with me – they’ve always done right by me – so I have no problem playing with them, going out there and sweating, bleeding, and winning with them.
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.
I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I’ve been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.
You can’t be in the locker room reading ‘League of Denial.’
I think when I started in wrestling, I hadn’t realized how difficult locker rooms were going to be. I thought they were going to be more inviting than they were.
I push myself hard. I don’t like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
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.
We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it’s all about teamwork.
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.
I think when you’ve played in a league for as long as I have, it would be foolish for a coach not to ask a player with that kind of knowledge about other players. A lot of this goes beyond the court. Are they a good teammate? Are they good in the locker room? What’s their attitude like? Do they work hard?
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.
I had a habit of watching classic wrestling pretty much on repeat in the locker rooms. With the influx of talent at WWE, with guys like Kevin Owens, he was one of the first people to open my eyes up to the world that is PWG and BOLA.
Bayley is a locker room leader, and an amazing person inside and out. I’ve watched and learned from her, the way she handles situations and adapts so easily and quickly. She has the ability to make things look so easy.
You could look at Tim Brown, you walk in the locker room and you knew you were going to get consistency with him as a person and as a player.
I never remember being self-conscious about my body. That just comes from being in a locker room for so long.
I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.
When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn’t get hung in a locker for two hours. That’s a blessing.
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.
Twenty years ago, you’d see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
