Basketball Quote by Tom Izzo

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place…

— Scott Pelley

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for…

— Herb Brooks

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

— Ben Howland

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

— Joel Embiid

My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values.…

— Herb Brooks

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

— Antonio Conte

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

— Roger Ailes

Nothing really comes easy to you when you're under-recruited, you're undersized, you're undervalued. It's a situation where you have to be better than the…

— C. J. McCollum

Talent level, I feel like if I'm not the best, I'm one or two. I think it's just opportunity, the situation that you're in,…

— Jayson Tatum

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to…

— Magic Johnson

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

— Nick Saban

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

— Steve Jobs