Steve Spurrier Quotes

Recruiting is not an exact science.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

Recruiting is tough because you have to stay in the battle. You've got so many guys that are going after a certain amount of kids.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne