Top 161 Dressing Room Quotes

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There’s nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman – fat, thin, or in between – that she’s a freak.

Jose Mourinho knows how to control to big players in the dressing room, to control egos. He’s done it all his life and knows how to work it into the team.

Rafa Benitez – man with huge experience who knew how the club operated – could not get the results Real wanted and couldn’t walk away from the fights that erupted in the dressing room and the boardroom.

In my dressing room, you’ll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

My career started off under George Graham, a general. Even though we had big name players, he would walk into a dressing room and people would shut up. I worked with Gerard Houllier too.

I don’t need to concentrate or meditate before a fight. I’m the kind of guy who’ll be having a laugh in the dressing room 10 minutes before the fight – that’s me.

But yes, I’m going to miss being a part of the team, sharing a dressing room, playing a test match, all those kinds of things.

My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.

Wilfried is a very good striker who is strong and intelligent – he talks to me all the time and advises me. We sit together in the dressing room and he’s like a big brother to me.

In my world, the dressing room was sacrosanct. The only time anyone was permitted to take pictures in there was when we had won a trophy.

Around the time Andre Villas-Boas became manager I went to a summer training camp in America. But when I got back, to my horror, I found that all my kit had been moved into the reserve team changing room. I was told I wasn’t allowed in the first team dressing room anymore.

My players know the ‘fear’ word or something like that does not go inside our dressing room. Never.

To be someplace for ten years or to work anywhere for ten years is a tough deal. But to work in the WWE for that long, knowing how their dressing room is run with this top heavy, condescending ‘do this and nothing else’ attitude, it gets tiresome.

The good thing about being a pundit now is you have ex-footballers together and there’s good banter. That’s what it was like in the dressing room every day.

It was two different worlds: my world – cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled with me, it wasn’t always easy to bridge the gap.

What I say in the dressing room always stays there.

The kit man is the heartbeat of the football club, really. He knows the lads. He’s usually local, a fan, and he’s got his finger on the pulse of the dressing room.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

The Grand Ole Opry was my favorite. That’s when I got to discover the stuff inside the Grand Ole Opry, like Hank Williams’ clothes, the dressing room Taylor Swift stayed in and some other things. Then I got to perform.

I sit next to Drogba in the dressing room. I listen all the time because he gives advice.

After ‘UNCLE,’ I never accepted the first offer: if I wanted more money, I asked for it. A better dressing room? Four first-class tickets instead of two? I’d ask for them, and I’d often get them.

You have to make decisions that you think are right for the club. I also think that, in the dressing room, there should only ever be one voice and it’s got to be the manager’s.

There’s an awful lot of hanging around when you’re doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

I’ve been at Chelsea five years and been the butt of many jokes. And I give it back sometimes. That is the beauty of team spirit in a healthy dressing room. I’m not a sensitive, precious person.

I’ll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I’ve been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can’t hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

In the dressing room, you can never lose that group concept.

You can’t complain about your dressing room or you’ll look like Celine Dion.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing room so much easier.

Ashlee Simpson kicking her dressing room door after getting caught lip-synching – that was interesting to watch.

The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, ‘Basti, what time is it?’ hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That’s quite entertaining.

Many years ago, I was found in compromising circumstances in a dressing room by a security man. The other person was hiding.

I’m a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

I don’t miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

I don’t really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it’s safe, and the guys don’t go to the papers and tell them what I’ve done.

Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist’s office/yoga studio dressing room, call me ‘Hey, you look like that girl from ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’/’Independence Day’/’Rambling Rose.’ There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

I am not someone who likes to be in the dressing room and waste time; I like to be on the field all the time and be counted. That is how I am.

Coming into a new dressing room is exciting.

I am super nice, I am great, even in the dressing room. I am also quite shy. But when there are difficult times or when you have to show your character, you can count on me. The players who have known me for a while know this.

It is a little bit strange from when you share a dressing room with someone, you play with them and then all of a sudden they are your manager but you used to have conversations with them that stay in dressing rooms and now you can’t really have those conversations!

I miss everything. The field, the dressing room, the training. I miss San Siro. But I was lucky enough to experience good feelings as a player.

It will be wonderful to get into the Indian dressing room as the coach. I am really looking forward to the challenge and the huge responsibility. I know there will be a lot of expectations and that is something which I am looking forward to.

It’s not always the player that’s talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It’s a feeling that you need to develop, it’s a feeling that needs to grow on you.

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

The FA Cup final is such a fantastic final to play in. I played in the 1999 one at Wembley, and after having watched so many finals as a kid, to be able to make that long walk up from the dressing room to the pitch was fantastic.

After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don’t want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.

I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.

Peter Moores has been very popular in the England dressing room. He’s got a very good record of developing players but I felt that in some areas of international cricket he is a little bit exposed, around tactics and strategy.

I did get the nickname ‘craptain’ from the Yorkshire dressing room. A bit of banter which I thought was quite funny.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I’m an ally.

Something we do every tour is to choose a song for the team CD that gets played in the dressing room prior to games.

I remember going to Bob Preston’s dressing room because I was losing a laugh – as you do in a long run. He said, ‘Give me the script. That’s where you’re going off the road.’ That’s comedy. It’s never the line itself; it’s in the foundation.