Jim Leyland Quotes

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

I'm really looking forward to working under Mourinho.

I want to make it clear, I'm not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that's what I want to do.

I am so thrilled about the opportunity to coach the Storm for years to come.

I need a coaching job in the NBA. I'm restless and I need money.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.

It wasn't my target to work as Argentina team manager.

I dont need a pardon. I need a job.

The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.

I'm not the interview-giving kind.

I don't like to do a lot of interviews.

One day when I was 14 I put together a makeshift CV and walked into this weird boutique in Pinner, near where I lived, to ask if they needed a Saturday assistant. They didn't, but the owner took me on anyway.