Personnel Change Quotes

There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

At times you are going to miss people. When that happens, others have to come to the front and show the calibre that brought them to the club in the first place.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

What happens in college is every year, or every two years, sometimes every three, you get a new flock of graduate assistants that come in even though the head coach remains the same.

It's a horrible part of the game when you have to tell a player, probably somebody who has helped you win so much that his time is up. You treat them like family, and because they are your family it becomes even more hurting in the sense that you have got to say "well son, I'm sorry, you won't be a regular here, but you will still have a career elsewhere.' It's happened more than a few times but it is not an easy thing to handle.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

Lou Gorman gave my number to a non-roster player the year after I left.

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but when I left for vacation, I definitely didn't think I would come back as not a member of the Titans. But we had a difference of the opinion somewhere along the way.

Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).

The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.

It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.

If you are going to fire this person or hire that person, do it all in a concentrated period. The Band-Aid gets ripped off, and everybody goes back to work.

The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.

Players come and go, and that goes for coaches as well.

Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.