“In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.” OrderRoomsPracticePlayerFootballGainsWeightMeetingsConsistentlySaturdayAmerican FootballLockersLocker RoomWeight Room Author:Junior Seau
“The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.” KindRoomsFourPlayerWallManagersEnjoyedHotelMe AloneHotel RoomsAlone TimeFour Walls Author:Al Lopez
“We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.” WorldKindMayDifferentMovingNextRoomsLeaderWisePlayerChangedOffersInsightDrawingTraditionalExecutivesPricelessDifferent WorldsInterconnectedTerrainThings Have ChangedStakeholder Author:Walter Truett Anderson
“Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.” ReligiousRoomsPlayerFansSubjectsMediaFootballInvolvedSoccerDiscussing Author:George Boateng
“What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.” WaterUnitedRoomsCareersPlayerHappenedFootballShoesTechniqueManagersSoccerBagsBottlesChairmanMineralsScotsMineral Water Author:Marcello Lippi
“It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.” TryingMayLittlesSaidDifferentGamesWinningRoomsMistakePlayerTeamFootballJokesFundamentalsCoachesGet BetterNflBreakfastFewerRepetitionNever ChangeDrillsLockersLocker Room Author:Barry Switzer
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.” ShowsFoundHouseStarsWhiteRoomsCasesPlayerInfluenceSeriousDrugAmbitionBaseballHotelWhite HouseSpellsPublishersChasingMovie StarTrashSkirtsBaseball PlayerCongressmanTalk ShowsHotel RoomsSufferersRecreational Drugs Author:Calvin Trillin
“You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.” HumorFunnyWalksRoomsPlayerClothesBaseballMusclesLockersLocker Room Author:Jerry Coleman
“One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work” IfsHardRoomsAttitudePlayerImpossibleTeamBasketballSelfishPoisonNbaLockersTeam WorkLocker Room Author:Dean Smith
“In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.” IfsWayFirstsWellsLooksLittlesPlayBitsRoomsHalfQualityPlayerTeamLittle BitSurpriseDominantClicksSurprise Me Author:Rio Ferdinand
“I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.” NeedsStillsRoomsPlayerImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Tony Parker
“You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.” PlayWalksRoomsPlayerAndrewLockersLocker Room Author:Lamar Odom