Urban Meyer Quotes

Real Madrid are always after the best talent.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.

My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can.

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

I'm no longer the head football coach at Ohio State.

We're not the only ones out there trying to get good players and trying to help kids.

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

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.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.

You go for the best talent available, wherever it is. You fish it out. That's how I've scouted all my career. Doesn't matter where it is - international, domestic, college, anywhere.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

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

I don't know how Coach Saban found me all the way in Hawaii from Alabama.

It's never easy to find players in the market who are exactly what you need at that time.

Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

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.

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.