Scouting Quotes

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film. (Annette Funicello)
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. View quote
Glenn Hoddle
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. View quote
Robert Powell
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. View quote
Rick Perry
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. View quote
Lloyd Bentsen
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life. View quote
Bear Grylls
I must be driven. I figured that as long as I had to stay out there I ought to keep scouting around. Working in my sleep. Ought to have the Old Man double my pay. How much is two times a stab in the back? View quote
Glen Cook
We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. View quote
David Cone
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. (Juliette Gordon Low)
I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people's tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don't know how much actual scouting they do online. View quote
Noel Wells
No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change. View quote
Pat Gillick
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. View quote
Robert Powell
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that. View quote
Roy Clark
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for. View quote
Roy Clark
You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire. View quote
Tony Parker
Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense. View quote
Terry Rozier
Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Max Macon, the manager, told me one day on the bench late in the season, "That kid will be starting at Pittsburgh next season." I said, "What do you mean?" He told me about the draft rule for anybody signing a bonus of more than $4,000 and said the Pirates would have the first draft choice and would be sure to take Clemente. He said they'd been scouting him. You could tell he had talent. And he was such a nice kid. View quote
Roberto Clemente
The fact that Clemente has been so consistent is the most impressive thing about him. He is hitting over .300 when there are fewer and fewer .300 hitters. Yastrzemski had a great season, but Clemente has had many, many great seasons, and that's why I picked him. Our scouting reports on him are the best – the best they can be. We rate him at the top in every category. You can't say more than that. (Roberto Clemente)
This boy may not possess the color of Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays, but he has enough natural ability to be spoken of along with any of those fellows. I suppose I have a peculiar attachment to Robert [sic]. That's because we got him for a "steal," you might say. I was with the Dodgers when we acquired Clemente after scouting him in Puerto Rico. So I was thoroughly acquainted with the boy when the major league draft came up in the winter of 1954, after I had come to Pittsburgh from Brooklyn. The Dodgers were apparently bent on "hiding" Robert when they transferred him to the Pacific Coast League. But since I knew what he could do, and that he was somewhere in their farm system, I withheld the Pirates' draft selection until I found the boy. We got him for the relatively small draft price-perhaps the biggest steal in baseball. View quote
Roberto Clemente