Quotes About Scouting

I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.

In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

Every year at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, PFF meets with nearly every team.

I had lots of fun; I was in the boy scouts, I went camping. I just used to mess around like a normal kid.

You're a Boy Scout?" "Well, I was until I got kicked out." "What did you get kicked out for?" "I kept getting lost.

For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.

I like to watch 'America's Got Talent' every Tuesday just to scout out the competition so I can see what I'm up against.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.

You never know when or where you will find the next new model, but you can bet someone from Ford Models will be looking.

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.

If you can get a second-round pick that makes it, it's unbelievable for that franchise, what you save and all the other things to build. You're always looking for guys like that.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

Women are no good," he told me bitterly. "They spoil everything. They haven't got the spirit of adventure. Men understand each other much better when they're alone together. Uncle Peter (that's our Scoutmaster) says women should stay at home and mend socks. That's all they're fit for!

There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.