Locker Room Quotes - Page 2

• There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Butterfly, Games

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• I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• 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.

  Novak Djokovic

  Communication, Player, Thinking

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• I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

  Kathryn Sansone

  Soccer, Children, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2003.

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• With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Morning, Reading

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• 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.

  Chili Davis

  Kids, Player, People

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• It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

  Jacques Rogge

  Roots, Levels, Lockers

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• I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

  Luke Scott

  Gun, Years, Lockers

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• We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.

  Donald Driver

  Stress, Winning, Thinking

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• I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

  LeBron James

  Hate, Loss, Winning

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• The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Weight, Lockers

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• Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

  Alberto Manguel

  Government, Office, Lockers

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• How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

  Jodi Picoult

  Rain, Home, Hair

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• People might be making too much of me maturing and growing; I’m still the same person. I still like to joke around and have fun in the locker room and on the road trips. I still get into arguments with Jonathan because we both have strong opinions, and we’re both so comfortable with our relationship that we can argue and still have a healthy friendship.

  Patrick Kane

  Strong, Fun, People

  "Patrick Kane: Scratching the surface". www.nhl.com. November 22, 2011.

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• You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ass belongs to me.

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wwe, Three, Looks

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• I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries.

  LeBron James

  Blessed, Night, Ohio

  "LeBron James Talks Akron, Being Blessed And His Lack Of Worries During Postgame Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2013.

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• If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

  Michael Pollan

  Dirty, School, Dark

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

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• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  Brad Gilbert

  Years, Guy, Twenties

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• So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

  John Green

  Boys, Secret, Rooms

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

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• Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Dodgeball, Lockers

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Jobs, Work Out

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• What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

  Mike Shanahan

  Adversity, Games, Play

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• The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

  Danny Lyon

  Phones, Cells, Cameras

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