Frank Gore Quotes

That's something that's so often overlooked in this game - the dynamics of the locker room.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

All it takes is one guy to change a locker room. To change the complexity or nature of an atmosphere.

You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.

I just want to go to the right environment for me and the right team.

The players know what they have with Southampton, what they can expect from us, and that's the main part.

That's the big thing - having the other guys' respect in the locker room. You can't come in with no respect and try to own the place.

I've worked with so many teams, so many dressing rooms.

Difference is respected and the environment Eoin Morgan has created is such that we are encouraged to transfer our personalities into our cricket.

Just being in the locker room as a young person growing up was something I've always enjoyed, without ever having it forced upon me.

Players don't trust most of the people around them.

The dressing-room environment is very difficult to replicate, camaraderie is very important.

I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

Teams really take into account character.

But the atmosphere of being part of the Indian team is totally different from any other team. People start looking at you in a different way. But the senior players and support staff really helped me in ease into the team.

I think our team kind of strives on weirdness sometimes. We have that 'rah-rah, rally' sort of American mentality that we can all kind of get around.