Ron Jaworski Quotes

Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

My job is to get the very best people we can.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

How do I find someone for a position I've never worked with - or worked under, even? I feel like I'm not qualified to make a lot of these decisions.

I think it's really important that we get an experienced staff. Guys that have been a head coach, to me, at some level is important to me. I value head coaching just because it's good to know what it's like to be the decision maker.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

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

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Every goal for me is to be a leader on the court every time I step on the court.

And I actually had to beg for my last tryout at NXT. Yeah, I actually had to send multiple emails to say, 'I want another tryout and there's no reason you will not hire me after this tryout.' And that was the tryout that they hired me from.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

An interview is about mutual selection.