Quotes About Scouting

To get players for MLS, we sometimes had to go to places where nobody else goes. The big teams have global scouting networks but we had to be creative.

It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

You go for the best talent available, wherever it is. You fish it out. That's how I've scouted all my career. Doesn't matter where it is - international, domestic, college, anywhere.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

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.

The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests.

Troop 75 of Ridgefield

Troop 75 of Ridgefield, Connecticut.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

I scouted all the girls at Wimbledon. I wasn't impressed.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. There are no definitive answers in this game, no shortcuts. When you think you've got it all figured out, you can get humbled very quickly.

Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it's a very lonely place for a child and some kids don't bounce back from it.

Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.' And

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.