Recruiting Quotes

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

When Coach Mike Brey at Notre Dame was recruiting me, he was like, ‘There will be Irish on the front of the jersey; and Irish on the back of the jersey.’ But no one actually knows I am a citizen over there.

My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.

People like me, when we’re interviewing, we’re not going back to our desktop to fill out a recruiting form. If I can quickly submit my evaluation through an iPhone or an iPad, that makes me a lot more productive.

In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.

The college kids are recruiting each other. When they go to a school, they start recruiting each other.

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don’t know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.

Israelis cannot enter Iran, so Israel, Iranian officials believe, has devoted huge resources to recruiting Iranians who leave the country on business trips and turning them into agents.

I was in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. So we really experienced Facebook in a unique way. It launched our sophomore year, and we were also the first class where it became a recruiting tool.

What you see at a bachelor or bachelorette party is what happens on a recruiting visit.

I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN ‘Coaches Corner‘ show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.

The reality is that it’s harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you’re not recruiting them for a children‘s hospital.

I don’t have the same knack for the business end that my old man did. Recruiting people has been tough. I don’t envy anyone in that spot, especially some of the great non-WWE promoters like ‘Evolves’ Gabe Sapolsky, Beyond Wrestling‘s Drew Cordeiro, or Markus Mac at All Pro Wrestling.

I think free agency changed the league more than the money. Teams had to build better facilities, coaches had to develop more personal relationships with the players and recruiting became such a big part of winning and losing.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You’ve got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things – confidence, improvement, recruiting.

There’s nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player.

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody‘s mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.

Part of that problem is women don’t run. We don’t run for office. It’s not that people are overwhelmingly voting against us. We just don’t step up to the plate. So we have to do a better job of recruiting women and getting women to step up.

The field of ‘economics and organization‘ is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn’t recruiting anybody because I didn’t have any books for people to work on.

I love going into a home and talking to a family that knows nothing about recruiting – about the whole process. I love selling who we are and what we are, and that’s something I really missed when I was on TV.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.

If we have somebody who may be ranked a little higher than another person, if one of them wants to be a Buckeye, wants to play in that rivalry game, play in the Horseshoe, that matters to us. We take all those things into consideration and we try to be as aggressive as we can on the recruiting trail.

We’ve got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that’s important when you go out recruiting.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn’t appeal to me any more. It’s not as much fun as it used to be.

Recruiting is always a snow-ball effect because when you get really good players and they like it, the other players want to play with them.

I’ve missed the association with players and coaches but haven‘t missed the recruiting and the travel.

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

Assad’s brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that’s really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

With the Capital One Bowl, the average fan might think whoopty do. But if you are a team member, you win that game and you see how much momentum that gives people going into winter conditioning, recruiting, and spring football.

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

It never stops. It’s 365 recruiting. That cell phone you’ve got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching.

I want guys that are sincerely interested in coming to Clemson. I don’t need any practice recruiting, and I don’t like wasting time. I want to be transparent, and I want prospects to be transparent, and if they’re really interested in Clemson, then they’re going to come here unofficially on their own.