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

In every dressing room in the world, players say things to each other after a defeat, and then it gets forgotten.

I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA system blasting away.

I'm more of a player that listens and focuses on myself in the dressing room; I don't talk much before the matches.

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

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

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

As soon as I score, my mother texts me, so when I go in the dressing room, her text is there waiting for me to read!

MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.

Obviously, there will be different character traits in the dressing room, but I'm there to bring happiness and a smile.

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

If you could bottle that special feeling you sometimes get in a dressing room just before a match, you'd be a billionaire.

Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.

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

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.

I am very happy. And also, I want to come out to bat in this kind of tough situation when everybody in the dressing room is nervous.

I still like to think I have a pretty good laugh with the other guys in the dressing room and still enjoy a beer and the odd night out.

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.

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.

In the dressing room there is nothing better than when a good player walks through the door and the guys say 'I'm glad he's come along.'

Any queen who's ever worked in a drag bar, or even been in a drag dressing room, knows that underlying all of that is a sense of family.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

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.

Ancelotti speaks a lot with his players, creates a very close-knit atmosphere, and the Real Madrid dressing room was very sad when he left.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

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.

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

Obviously, when you win and keep winning, it's easier to maintain this atmosphere, but the atmosphere in the Man City dressing room is amazing.

There were players I shared a dressing room with who didn't like each other. You don't have to talk to each other. You just need to win matches.

There were times we were kept in our dressing room until late at night because it wasn't safe to go home. Our bus would get attacked, the tires slit.

I'll do very light, very easy yoga in my dressing room. I like to just lay down on the floor and put my legs on the wall and stretch and just be still.

I have had the same shinpads since I was eight or nine years old. Everyone laughs in the dressing room because of them but I am superstitious with that.

I don't see my season with Dortmund negatively. There were some real problems there in the dressing room and they were going through a generation change.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

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.

You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.

In the past, goalies weren't even part of the team. They had their own dressing room. They didn't speak with the other team members. They were lone warriors.

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.

Diego Costa is the one who plays around a lot, who jokes a lot in the dressing room. It's just his way, joking around with all of us, every hour of every day.

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.

I like there to be a good atmosphere in the dressing room, for music to be played before matches. We have to entertain the fans and have a good time ourselves.

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.

Thank you to all of the managers, coaches, and staff I've worked with and thank you to all of the team-mates that I've shared a dressing room with over the years.

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.

The group of players that you see in the Barca dressing room is unique. There are a lot of homegrown players and others who really care for Barcelona a lot as well.

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

The first time Stuart Broad walked into the dressing room, with his flowing blond hair, striking blue eyes and perfect figure, I thought: 'My God, she's beautiful.'

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