Top 40 Clubhouse Quotes

In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.

Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see a reformer in every big league clubhouse.

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X’s and the O’s – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what’s going to happen. You’re going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel – they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.

It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that’s a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, ‘Beautiful day. Let’s play two!’ And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That’s not going to do me any good. We didn’t have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn’t even work half the time.

You think about when you’re kids and see these guys on TV, and now you’re in the same clubhouse as Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox.

It’s hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you’re picking up dirty clothes and you’re doing all the tasks that the players – that nobody else wants to do.

I don’t want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that’s not good, right?

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you’re working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, ‘Geez, it’s great to be at work. Let’s go get ’em,’ as opposed to walking in there knowing there’s going to be a commotion.

I want crazy in the clubhouse every day.

I was a girl who came into the clubhouse, into the treehouse, with the sign on the door saying, ‘No girls allowed,’ and the reception was not always a good one.

I remember when replay first came to TV. I can’t remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, ‘Go ahead. I am the replay.’

Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

I’m not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn’t go there with one goal in mind.

Usually during the regular season, if you’re starting pitcher, you’re kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what’s going on.

Every good team is going to have a good culture in the clubhouse.

I’m like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

I’m not a fan of people coming in the clubhouse.

Even over time, with a stable coaching staff and one manager who is fantastic and been in place for a long time, you can’t ever defer and stay out of the clubhouse because you don’t want to get in the way.

I’ve said it, I’ll keep saying it, I want to be in Detroit. I’ve really enjoyed my time here. I really enjoy the clubhouse and everyone that’s involved.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I realized that I still had a lot to offer the game. My knowledge could maybe help younger guys. I enjoyed being around the clubhouse, on the field.

Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I’m just as invested as I’ve always been.

I’ve been around clubhouses a long time, I know how to maneuver around the clubhouse.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I’ve never been a troublemaker. I don’t know where that came from.

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.

I was forced to earn some extra glue and made the hysterically shortsighted decision to pose for photos in very tiny and colorful swimwear for a fitness magazine, that would become the fuel to many a comical fire in my clubhouse environments over the years.

I think the big thing is keeping positive energy in the clubhouse. The amount of time we spend in there and spend together carries over into what you do on the field.

We’re the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

I’d love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I’d also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won’t let me do it.

Of course a lot of the players in that clubhouse have respect for me and talk to me about everything. So with my experience, I certainly try to help them, to make things easier for everyone.

Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.

People in real life don’t get ballplayers’ humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.