Hired Quotations | Page 2

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

We hate to lose Coach Jungers. I understood when we hired him that some day we would lose him to a head coaching job. We know he will do a great job in the future.

We had fun training all these people. Ninety-five percent were hired from this area. They've done a lot of hard work.

We had a lot of trouble with that third role because I said to the studio that it was important to get someone who was, on the one hand, a wonderful actor, and, on the other hand was not well known, because if you had simply hired an actor like one of the Baldwin brothers or someone like that the audience would have known that they were too big a star to be killed off and not come back.

This year was a little disappointing but I had a great career at Wake Forest and wouldn't trade it for anything. I've hired an agent in Matt Nelson from Houston and after graduation I'll be heading to Houston to work-out and get myself in shape.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

I can't just 'Jim Carrey' something like that, ... I don't have that kind of genius. So I went and hired a clown and we did isolating exercises, where one part of your body does one thing and another part does something else. And then, at 2 in the morning, after working on it for hours, I was lying down, and I thought, 'Oh my God, I've got it now!'

When we initially hired him, we were looking for a turnaround, and we called him a turnaround specialist, ... That's exactly what he did. For me, he really taught the organization what it was to win, and to work hard. It was all about winning early on, every game. He set the tone in the clubhouse, then the working hard. He was out here before the players often, and working hard. Then he challenged a lot of the young players here who had not been challenged to work harder.

When we hired Scotty Bowman, everything changed. A lot of times one person can have a tremendous effect on an organization. You know, Jim addressed right away you've got to have all your veterans on board. Ironically, the first thing Scotty told me was getting your veterans on the same page. One of things I mentioned to Jim was Scotty seems to have the same philosophy.

When we hired Jeff he said the key to being successful here was beating the College of Charleston head on. Year in and year out, Charleston has had good teams and Davidson is an outstanding program.