Scouts Quotations

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

We've actually had two or three of these and out of the funds we've raised, we've helped 283 kids go to camp that financially wouldn't have been able to go. It's been pretty beneficial for us. All of the money raised helps send Scouts to camp.

We need as many youth team scouts as possible.

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Last year the Parish Nurses received grant funding to do a drug prevention education calendar. The Scouts did a pilot project by doing several small presentations and having students do drawings. Calendars were made and distributed to elementary schools in Derby, Seymour and Oxford.

Scouts are more likely to have an appreciation for things they know something about.

Scouts and college recruiters realized Canada was an untapped market. We have a gold mine of athletes, lots of kids willing to work hard.

She was a great volunteer and devoted her time to helping others. She was a member of the Shelton Historical Society, she volunteered for the Girl Scouts and helped take care of the fountain.

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

No one has given me input on what aspect of the game I need to improve on, but I am not blind to it. I believe my hardest critic is myself and my father. Whatever the scouts said about me, I'm pretty sure my dad has said 10 times worse.

People who agree with the Boy Scouts - they can do that. And they can take the fork in the road that goes down toward being a strictly private organization. Why can't one of these clubs that discriminate against women or gays or atheists be a club? But don't expect to have your meetings on government property, for instance. That's the distinction here.

One thing I like - and I know scouts have liked - is his speed. If he can keep that and continue to hit the way he does, I'd think that would make him very attractive for a professional team.

One of the kids put it best. Scouts aren't going to watch losing teams play.

One of the scouts from Arkansas A&M came to the game and gave Clay $10. He didn't give me any money, so I got mad. So I ended up going to Southern.

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

I have gotten great feedback in the last week that I am an individual that N.F.L. teams could and will be very interested in. I am anxious for the chance to show scouts next week that I can help their team in the future.

I had worked as an employee for the Boy Scouts as district director for almost six years. Working for an organization that does things for kids was very rewarding for me and I wanted to get back into doing something for children. This seemed like an amazing opportunity.

From what we hear, the Scouts have been making a good deal of progress on doing that.

He was converted from third base to second because he doesn't have big power but our scouts say he can hit. He has good makeup.

He has all the tools scouts love. You can give him great grades on a report card and look great because everyone can see the talent. He has an awful lot of talent, a lot of potential, but he has never gotten it done consistently. Maybe this time it will be different because the Padres have a lot at stake when they make a final decision on him.

He has outstanding stuff. He's around the plate, and he's not wild. Our scouts liked him, and you can see why.

He had a heck of a year. The scouts notice him.

He gives himself a chance to be as good as he's capable of being. He has a lot of energy and a lot of passion. I think someone said a lot of the scouts were talking about him being a surprise or something, just because you don't get him at 3.8 seconds down the line and he hasn't hit 45 home runs and appeared on all the Baseball America lists. ... He's a baseball player. He brings a lot of intangibles.

We're only going to do something if it's going to help us. I met with our pro scouts two weeks ago and we went through every team. If there's a prospect that we can think can help, we'll look at doing something. We've got a good idea on the guys we like . . . we went over it thoroughly and we're not going to take any fliers.

When his senior year comes around, there will be some pro scouts looking at him.

He's a guy that, over the years, our scouts have liked a lot. He's been in our organization at the minor league level and his development's improved every year. He's somebody that can compete for a job out of training camp or be a good call-up for us. He's a big guy that can move around and add a little bit of toughness.

He's done OK. But the expectations were really high after the second half and what he did last year. He hasn't lived up to that. Scouts are up there and people see things. He hasn't been able to make the adjustments as quickly as a couple of guys. That's something he'll have to do to get better.

He was a guy that a lot of scouts came out to see and I benefited from that because I ran routes with Freddie. You just have a smaller window of opportunity. You have to impress somebody that wasn't expecting to watch you at your pro day.

There are so many demands, on general managers especially. Doug listens well to the scouts and player-development people. People are loyal to him because he's loyal to them.

I think it really changed the way some scouts look at Northeast kids and how they play ball.

I think that was the main point we addressed when we came together. I'm talking more myself with Brad, than with Scott. One of the first orders of business we had was to conduct extensive meetings on what exactly it was the coaches wanted for each position. If they had a size, weight or speed requirement for a player, what is it that it would be for every position. And then we communicated that early in February to the scouts so they could do a better job of preparing for this draft.

I think that when he had his day down here (in Iowa City), he proved to everybody what he has. I see the guy run every day. I know he can run. I think when the scouts came here, they saw what they thought they knew - that this guy can run.

I think every time someone misses on somebody that glaringly, they go back and evaluate their reports, evaluate the scouts that wrote the reports. They deeply evaluate the whole situation better and see where they made a mistake, or if they did.

I said to the scouts I was standing with that Ryan would play at the highest level. He was like a ballet dancer when I saw him and I knew we had to get him,

Our scouts thought he could hit at a big league level because he swung a good bat and had a good command of the strike zone.

Our scouts have done a tremendous job. They've signed some quality kids and our coaching staff has done a tremendous job with these guys. They've signed talented guys who are also tremendous young men.

Our scouts feel he is ready to play in the NHL. He established himself in the Swedish Elite League and their national program and we felt it was time to bring him over.

My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you didn't even know were interested. It's been pretty busy, but I've been mostly just trying to relax. The past two weeks I've been traveling and meeting with teams. I'm just relaxing back here now.

I think he's got a great opportunity. I know that the pro scouts that have been through here have been very complimentary and have rated him very high.

I think he has just tons of drive, determination and instincts. He has good ability. I think it's unfair to suggest this guy doesn't have ability. He's a very good athlete. I think his tools were simply underevaluated by the scouts out here.

I think, for the first time, it turned out well. Good crowd out here - it was a great game. We hope to continue this in the future. Try to get some scouts out here next year.

It defies understanding, from our perspective. One can speculate, one, that the ACLU has been captured by the homosexual-rights movement, and so therefore they are attacking the Boy Scouts and friends of the Boy Scouts as a way of punishing us for having rights that the Supreme Court has affirmed. The other thing that is interesting is that they're attacking our friends. They go after our relationships with the Defense Department, with schools and school boards - and they sue those people, but they don't sue us. They think maybe that's a way of hurting us and hurting our friends for having relationships with us.

I thought he looked great, ... I told a couple of advance scouts I was sitting next to, 'He's got his 'A' game today.'

The advance scouts work hard, and they can try to detail that sort of thing, but until you get in the batter's box and experience it first hand, you can't know what it's like.

Miami is always going to have some real good players to choose from. That's why there are so many scouts here today.

You just have to trust your scouts in that regard.

We envision Hector as having a shot at our rotation. All that will be determined in spring training. Our scouts had good reports on him and they suggested him, in particular as a starter.

We are thrilled to have Tim join the organization. To add him to our staff at this time of his year with his track record is a real plus. He is considered in our industry to be one of the finer amateur scouts and his track record for the Blue Jays speaks for itself.

We're really happy to have the Scouts doing projects, ... We generally supply all the material and they supply the labor. We ask them to build to our specifications. These are projects we wouldn't be able to do because of the lack of manpower. The Scouts can add amenities that finish things off nicely.

We have a long history and tradition with the Boy Scouts and we look forward to continuing that relationship. It's a win-win situation all the way around.

The practices are the important part, that's where all the scouts are. I had a great week of practice. I just went out there and competed. It was a lot of fun.

The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''

We don't have enough room for evening aerobics, because the Scouts are using that space at night.

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

We recognize that a growing portion of our population isn't Caucasian and isn't suburban, A lot of the dads who come from different countries don't have an experience with the Boy Scouts of America, so we have to explain to the parents what we do. We're also working very hard in places like the inner city. A lot of times we have to hire a scoutmaster, maybe a college student, and pay him a stipend to lead a troop.

The pro scouts are still pretty interested. The process he's going through right now, he has a school (where), if he doesn't get drafted where he wants to get drafted, he has somewhere to fall back and get an education.

We work real hard to make visits from NFL scouts as beneficial as possible. We offer our guys everything from A to Z as they go through the process.

We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For us the Showdown is like having hundreds of talent scouts evaluating tens of thousands of artists.

We were fortunate this year to get them involved with us. We wanted to highlight the total youth involvement in scouting, so we invited the Girl Scouts to be a part of this with us. It will be a true display of the values young people get out of scouting.

We were pleasantly surprised. All scouts like good hockey players. It's rewarding to see good players and good games, because you see a lot of bad games and bad players.

Everything has been moving so fast since we got back from Los Angeles. But, this is a great opportunity to showcase your talent for a lot of NFL scouts and organizations, and I think I've been playing pretty well.

Berkeley has been given license to treat the Sea Scouts as second-class citizens because they don't meet an ideological litmus test.

Cub Scouts is about patriotism and citizenship, ... This is a great example of that.

I stepped into the Tigers situation with no farm system and no general manager, ... I had to work with scouts as GM's and not being connected in the sport. I'm not trying to make any alibis, but it's tough. I didn't make any good decisions on hiring.

It would be great to never have (Camp Flying Eagle) developed forever. Scouts need a place like Camp Flying Eagle. It brings my troop back to nature.

The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hitting all his spots recently. This is his third promising showing in a row.

The scouts were very positive on him. We had asked about him a while back. There was no way they were going to move him.

The scouts just enjoy the outdoors, the weather doesn't matter, the rain doesn't matter, it's just fun for them to be here to enjoy one another's company, to be in a structured environment where they can have fun.

The scouts have been out on the road all fall evaluating players, so the combine is the next step and it's really the first opportunity for the coaches to get involved and focus in on the players.

The scouts and NFL executives all watch the practices real closely, so outside of the combine, it's the players' best chance to improve their draft status.

The scouts and everybody else want to see receivers with speed. I'm more of an outside guy, so I didn't really get to showcase my speed that much.

It would be nice to get the Scouts back in there.

These wildflowers the scouts planted last spring are right where some of the benches were ripped up.

The statute treats the Boy Scouts and the 4H Club and the church identically. Any organization that was overseeing children is subject to the law,

The suggestion we need to begin to discriminate against the Boy Scouts simply because they have exercised their now acknowledged First Amendment Constitutional right is rather disturbing.

I wanted him to wrestle. When college scouts saw him on tape, it was already a no-brainer. But once they saw him on the wrestling mat, taking on and beating kids bigger than him, their interest grew to even greater lengths.

Some people say first, some people say late first, early second, third, things like that. The scouts always told me it depends on what you do at the combine.

After what we went through last year, I never wanted to be in a position where we were short of pitchers. You never have enough pitching, and while I didn't issue any edict or anything to go out and sign more pitchers, our scouts all understood that if they had any recommendations I would act on them. If you don't trust and listen to your scouts you're defeating yourself.

Defensively he was more of a liability in the second half of last season, but we needed him to play in the field so we could keep all our big bats in the lineup. He thought his defense was the reason he wasn't drafted. Pro scouts - they don't just go after bats.

A scout from California with the Texas Rangers said, 'Who's that kid? I said, 'He's a high school kid.' I didn't tell him he was my son. ... Other scouts said, 'You know how to evaluate everybody else but your own kid.

The Boy Scouts want to hide for a while and not have to make a choice - and that's only possible if people don't know what they're doing.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

The Boy Scouts motto is 'Be prepared.' That is why these kids will be calm (during the storm). The program teaches them how to be aware and prepared.

That's where I got my exposure to scouts and that's where I learned to develop my skills. Tommy took me under his wing and I can honestly say I wouldn't be here without him. He brought me along and knew I had potential. He helped me in more ways than baseball. We're still real close.

You're still playing to maybe get a call-up to the big leagues. Or it might mean you're coming back to our organization next year or there might be scouts in the stands from other organizations.

This is definitely going to be one of the best basketball tournaments in the region. Not only will there be teams from the United States, but there will be scouts from the United States as well. This is going to be one of the best basketball tournaments in the history of The Bahamas.

This is another in a continuing legal backlash against the Boy Scouts for asserting and winning its constitutional rights in the United States Supreme Court.

This is probably my favorite among the jobs I have had. Before coming to Southlake, I worked with the Girl Scouts and that was a lot of fun, too. It is definitely a close second, but I really believe working with the seniors and with individuals who have disabilities is my all time favorite.

This game gives college scouts a chance to see how players compare with kids of equal talent from other counties.

A lot of scouts like him. Myron has been great for us. He's just starting to scratch the surface. He's very athletic, and he's a great kid. He's been able to score. Now, we want to teach him how to run a team and defend consistently.

Almost all the coaches and scouts I've talked to say that's the way to make your mark as a rookie ? come in and play hard on special teams.

They missed the bulk of the recruiting period. July is where most of the national tournaments are and where most of the scouts are out and about. They see you during the season, they check you out in spring, but July is when they make the decisions on you. July is decision-making time for college coaches.

They may not get as much attention, but scouts still go to those bowls so it was a very good opportunity for them.

This opportunity to work with the Scouts allows the instructors to share what they know and practice interacting with different age groups. The Sailors wanted to volunteer and give back to the local community.

There will be a ton of NBA scouts going through Valparaiso this season.

There must have been 40 to 45 scouts there. It was amazing.