Recruited Quotes

Upon Mary`s death, close friend and fellow CAC (Celebrity Action Council) member Meredith MacRae said, "Mary was not a star on a pedestal. She really listened to these troubled women and would candidly share her own struggles. She recruited dentists for them, threw them baby showers - and never with a reporter or camera crew to witness it. She truly gave of herself, and we honor her by making sure her work continues".

Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today`s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.

My dad would moonlight back then, ... He`d worked his way through college in a band before he became an opera singer. I`d been playing guitar all my life, but he recruited me to play drums when I was about 10. We played country clubs and stuff. He taught me drums for a good reason. I worked real cheap.

We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States. Clinton lied about a blow job, and got impeached by the media and Congress. Bush got us into the Iraq war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al- Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment. Unfortunately, the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been. It talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear. In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do. This is exactly what Orwell was talking about when he spoke of thought crimes.

But nobody really recruited me: TCU, Baylor, North Texas, UTEP ... teams like that. I went on a visit to Kansas State but they didn`t offer me. A&M was waiting on another running back and didn`t offer me. I was overlooked.

Any individual who touches a Northwest aircraft will be fully trained in the Northwest maintenance program. Some were furloughed from other airlines. Some are from vendors that already work on Northwest equipment. ... We recruited from a rather large pool the best we could get. They`re certainly not off the street.

Coming out of high school, Florida State recruited me as a fullback, a lot of schools wanted me as a fullback, but I knew I could be a great tailback.

It`s a very high honor, ... I remember when I was being recruited to go there and they take you through the hall of honor and see all the guys` pictures and stuff. It doesn`t even cross your mind then that one day you`ll have your picture up there.

They recruited him at fullback. But with his body size, there are a lot of places they could put him.

The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn`t know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

(Exhibit B: E.J. Rowland , a 6-2 senior point guard from Salinas, Calif. Rowland had wanted to come to St. Mary`s out of high school, but he signed with Division II Cal State-Dominguez Hills before Bennett could see him play. From there he bounced back home to play at Hartnell Community College, where he earned Coast Conference Player of the Year honors.) I saw E.J. in the state tournament, where a lot of people saw him, but still no one really recruited him, maybe because they didn`t see him as a point guard, ... We did. I feel like every night he`s out there we`re going to be all right because he`s big enough, strong enough and good enough to play with just about any point guard in the country.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven`t been cut off.

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

For me, this will probably be the biggest win as a head coach for this program. You`ve got to know everybody will have ups and downs. This is real important. These are all my kids now that I`ve recruited. It`s good to see them play hard and play in that kind of arena.

My kicker will be highly-recruited.