Top 44 Scouting Quotes

I really wanted to make ‘Everest’ visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It’s humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

Scouting is like CIA work and investigative work. You create a lot of stuff and try a lot of stuff. Some works and some doesn’t. I try to get creative.

ESPN is all meat and potatoes. It’s pretty much scouting reports. There isn’t a great deal of humor, and when there is, it’s pretty sophomoric.

If it wasn’t for Paul Brown, I probably wouldn’t have a job because he basically evolved scouting.

I really focus on process as much as anything else: process for how we evaluate players, process for how we make decisions, process even for how we hire people internally, process for how we go about integrating our scouting reports with guys watching tape in the office.

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.

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.

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

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.

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.

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.

I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.

Everyone has kind of a rough transition in the NFL. It’s a different kind of scouting.

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

When you don’t have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

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

There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

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

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

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.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

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

All the in-depth scouting reports we have on the opposing pitchers – just kind of learning how to study that, it’s huge.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

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

As an investor, I’m always scouting for new trends.

My agent called me when we were talking before I came to the States. He told me we are going to select only three or four teams who are most interested, who are calling the most, asking for you, who are watching me the most in Europe and scouting me.

So I’m going to tell you, it’s going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it’s going to be a good year.

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.

You know the cycling federation in the U.K. did a good job of going around schools and scouting young riders. The Belgian federation is not like that. It is asleep.

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.

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.

After ‘Pithamagan,’ I took a break scouting for good offers.

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.

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.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

It’s one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it’s completely different if you’re able to kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.

I think, generally speaking as a player, when I hear the word ‘scout,’ it’s usually, ‘The Seattle Storm are playing the L.A. Sparks tomorrow; the assistant coaches are scouting the L.A. Sparks.’ And then they come to us and give a scouting report on the players and the team.

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

Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.

If a team has multiple looks, it’s so hard to stand in front of your team and say, ‘This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.’