Jordan Rodgers Quotes

Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.

First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

It's up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

They fire coaches before players.

Posture has such a big impact on the way people perceive you.

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

What I learned is that how we present ourselves to the world is really how we get treated. So if you want to be treated really well in a restaurant, you really have to dress up. You cannot just show up.

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

Appearances do matter.

The way candidates react, immediately and usually involuntarily, while caught by the camera dominates impressions of who has “won” or “list” an encounter [political debate].

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.