Top 105 Recruiting Quotes

I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn’t even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

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.

Unless you’re at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

What most teachers need is very strong leadership and motivation, and when it comes to recruiting teachers you want to have the biggest possible pool possible.

Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.

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.

I’m not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

You’re working a million hours and you’re on the road recruiting and you’re doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you’re competing for a championship. You’re competing for a Big Ten Championship, you’re in the Rose Bowl, you’re taking your family to the Cotton Bowl.

I raised the standards on recruiting.

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

It doesn’t change whether it’s Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting’s a lot like shaving: If you don’t do it every day, you start looking like a bum.

A lot of kids, especially football players, had been using Twitter for recruiting.

True leadership isn’t about having an idea. It’s about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

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

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

In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label’s artist. They said they really liked my album ‘Everything You Wanted.’

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

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.

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.

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.

At the end of the day, if you’re not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you’re probably not going to win many championships.

My time at Seton Hall has been extremely rewarding. I commend the staff for their tireless and successful efforts in recruiting and elevating the program.

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.

Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn’t from Duke.

A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

A couple colleges tried recruiting me without Marcus and I just shut it down right away. That was clear from the beginning. It was always a package deal.

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

Recruiting is not an exact science.

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

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.

After spending 40 years recruiting students from high schools all over the country, I know the difference a quality education can make in a young person’s life.

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers – I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

We could fill up a whole hour’s television show talking about coach’s recruiting stories, I love them, they’re the best.

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 don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.

We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view.

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.

I’ve always respected Coach Frank. I kind of publicly recruited him because I really need him and want him. I’m kind of the college recruiter now because he brings a lot to the table. He’s had success here and understands the good and the bad, so I’m recruiting him to join my staff.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

I think proximity in recruiting matters the most.

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.

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

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.

When Washington State has been good, they’ve always had a connection to Southern California. You know, as far as visiting, that’s different than recruiting. Recruiting is based on production and players, who you can get. You know, so, the nicest parts of Southern California aren’t necessarily the best players.

Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can’t keep the Georgia kids home. What that means – he’s not cheating and paying. That’s what it means.

The problem in Georgia is we’ve got targeted heavily by outside groups that were interested in recruiting voters for the candidates that they want.

I’m tired of Nick Saban. I used to love Nick Saban. I don’t know what he does on the recruiting side – he’s the truth.

It’s interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, ‘You’re so positive about the other schools!’ And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

Our focus area would be recruiting people along with building great technology as well as building a great brand.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

Rick Neuheisel was recruiting me, and he told me something, and I’ll never forget it: he said you make your money in the red zone. If you’re down there, that’s already three points, so don’t turn the ball over. I kind of took that to heart, and I’m always very careful in the red zone.