Scouting Quotations

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

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

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.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

We're getting to a point now where when we get to our scouting team, it's a full-speed picture. We might not spend a lot of time preparing specifically for an opponent, but the time we do spend has been of good quality.

We both have our scouting reports already done.

With three days, you practice more what you're going to do than look at the other teams. We'll give them a little bit of a scouting report in the hotel room, but that'll be about it.

We'd get the scouting report on Monday and I would say, 'Wow, Les, look who you've got this week,'

We're playing as good as we can. But we have some room to go as far as following the scouting report . . . recognizing the shooters, that kind of scenario.

When I look at Section 3's preseason scouting report, it's as if Henninger doesn't go 13-0 and win a state championship, it'll be pretty much a down year,

There are two components. It's a process that keeps our organization filled with talented players because we have excellent people involved in scouting and the minor league system. The second part is Bobby Cox and his coaching staff, who take this talent wherever it comes from and blends it as effectively as any staff in the major leagues can do.

Lee is one of those guys who understands scouting reports, schemes and how we are guarding. You can be rest assured that he is going to follow everything to the minute detail of what he has to do. So, forget about the shooting part of it, we have just lost maybe our best overall defender.

Scouting is the only program I know of that teaches young men leadership, specifically leadership, and it's fun.

Scouting is something I'll be able to do later, but a player can play only so long.

Scouting is all about service and doing a good turn daily.

Scouting and player development are the R&D of baseball,

So far, using autonomous robots to make soil measurements is somewhat futuristic. In general, robotics for scouting still has many limitations, including providing them with enough power to operate efficiently for long periods. However, hypothetically, you could mount one of these recently developed sensors onto a robot and if smart enough, the robot could even decide by itself how far away to make the next measurement based on geo-statistical field data.

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.

She's a solid player. I don't think she has any glaring weaknesses. She can shoot the three and she can play inside. Our coaches do a good job scouting the teams we play. I always get familiar with the tendencies (of the opponents' best player) on paper.

She's a key factor. It's gonna be real important she understands the scouting report on each one of them, because she'll end up on each one at some point in the game. And she's got to handle their pressure.

Sitting in their dugout for three years, I think I've come up with a scouting report. But I'll still treat it like a regular start. When you're between the lines, it's not about (facing your old team). It's about competing - and hopefully getting a win.

McKinley was here tonight scouting us and I'm quite sure they saw some things they felt they could take advantage of.

Obviously, it starts with Jared. That's where our scouting report started. But he got 16 and 10. That's just how good he is.

Nobody has ever done this DVD technology before; no other sports team, because it's so new. We'll have the opportunity to really transform the way video coaching and scouting are done. It's kind of old-school to have to send people around to watch the game when you have all these feeds of it already. Our coaching staff isn't ready to make that change yet, but once they become comfortable with the system, they could.

My scouting report on myself is: 'Can be great. Needs to get better overall.'

I was supposed to work two or three days scouting the Houston-LA series. They told me to come up to Seattle, and I spent seven weeks up here when they made that run to the championship. So I had two days' worth of clothes for seven weeks. You figure that one out.

I don't know anything about them. I leave the scouting reports up to the coaches.

I'd love to play those guys. I was just having some fun with Alex, but, yeah, let's go. If we play these guys, I've got a good scouting report on them.

I don't know that he's got everything he had back then. I don't think he throws as hard. But our scouting reports still say he's an effective set-up man, and he's going to make our bullpen stronger.

Carl is always quick to correct me. One day when we were doing a scouting report, he noticed my shirt was on backward. He must not have been paying attention to the scouting report, but I tried that shirt on again the other day and it fits pretty well backward.

Based on scouting reports, a lot of people were telling me that our pressure would hurt them. It proved to be right tonight.

I felt comfortable throwing on Saturdays, not just because we had a scouting report, but we also got a live scouting report on Friday.

I feel like we're doing a better job of pressuring the ball and at the same time we have a better recognition of what we're doing overall in terms of our scheme and our scouting report.

From our scouting reports and coaches I talked to, we only thought they had one player who was an adequate outside shooter. They really surprised me in how well they did with a variety of shooters from the outside.

I don't think we took our scouting reports to heart.

I don't think we want to erase it. It definitely says to our team that we have a real challenge ahead of us. We want to use it for scouting purposes. We don't want to erase any part of the season.

I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for next year. But we are not getting free agents if it's not the right fit.

I enjoyed scouting and wanted to keep scouting.

(Fortner) emphasized that we wanted to attack them and get to the foul line. We wanted to make their guards play defense. We're really trying to understand the scouting reports and take advantage of the weaknesses our opponents have.

He understands that our scouting and player development system is the lifeblood of this ball club and the key to our sustained success. A few years ago, we set out to improve our farm system. We did, and continue to devote the necessary resources to that area of our organization. We are beginning to see the results of those efforts, as we see more homegrown talent at the major league level.

He was tough on his feet, but I didn't know how good he was scouting me. Most people don't go underneath me and he went underneath. That's where I do the best and once I started turning him it got easier and easier.

There is a genuine attempt to get things right in Atlanta. I think Atlanta can become the model. I think we've got an opportunity to really deliver Scouting to the poor boys that need it. I feel quite comfortable with the direction we are headed in.

We try to look at the games we are playing. Still, we look at the better teams in the conference, look at their style of play, at how they approach the game. We will come across everyone sooner or later. But conference is a time that is really fun. It's a little crazy. The scouting reports are so good. Everyone knows everything about everyone else. We know their plays, they know ours. But conference play is also fun, a lot of competition. It's what you live for, the competition. Go onto somebody else's court, come away with a victory. It's all fun.

He said 'You've got to follow your heart. He said when he talks to prospects at the Scouting Combine every year and asks them who the most influential person in their life was, most of them don't say their mom or their dad. It's their high school football coach. He said it's been one of his regrets that he wasn't a high school coach.

His outstanding college career and a recommendation from our scouting department. I'm looking forward to having Todd in our camp next season.

Hitting right now has been a little frustrating. I credit that to me missing the pitches to hit. I'm a year in, and scouting reports get around the country. I feel like I'm a good hitter, but I don't think it's very hard to get me out if you pitch me right.

He's done a marvelous job at Moon. It's no surprise. I remember when he was working with me, how hard he worked -- breaking down film, scouting and knowing the opponent. He's doing the same thing there and having his team prepared. He's doing a great job with his kids." ()

We met outside the MCI Center and did our scouting report and our walkthrough on the sidewalk.

He was getting to the front of the rim all night on us. We saw that on the scouting report, but he's a little more athletic than what I thought.

I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.

He kept the ball off the fat of the bat really well. He lived up to his scouting report. But it comes down to being able to do what you want to do, and it looked like he was able to do that.

He'll be in charge of scouting and probably more involved in the operation of the club.

He leaned out over the plate and yanked it over first base. It's an OK pitch selection, an OK pitch location, and I had no reservations about throwing it. I pitched to the scouting report and pitched to my strength. But what beat us was the walk, not the hit.

Kiel is a big kid and we think there is some potential that has yet to be tapped into. He is a player that our scouting has been enamored with because of his size.

Jake had a great sophomore year. He was the focus of everyone's scouting report, and he was still able to get his looks. He is turning into a complete player as he continues to work hard on his game, and more recognition and team success are in the near future for him.

Just watching him run around in practice, seeing how fast he is, you could see how he could do that. I really respect him for what he's doing out here. We like to kid him, though, about his scouting job, wondering what he's writing about himself.

I think it's a good scouting thing to know that he had that kind of makeup. It's tough to get through something like that. I don't know if I could have done it. It was pretty admirable.

I think we will see a little bit more of that now. Some of the games we've struggled in, we've seen match-up zones. So teams are scouting us, noticing that. But I think the more we see, the better we'll get against it.

I think after going through that process and coming back and having a chance to kind of reflect on a lot of the positives, I came to the realization that I had it pretty good in San Diego. This was the organization that drafted me, made me scouting director and the GM at a very young age, an organization that has stuck with me through some very difficult times.

I think actually the scouting report was to kind of shoot it low, so I don't know what I was doing.

I think it's probably a little unusual with all the great players that (Virginia Tech has) had through the years, you would have thought during the scouting process at some point I would have been to Blacksburg, but I've never been there.

It gives him a tremendous advantage, because good players have the ability to do different things. Teams can scout you, but that scouting report doesn't do you much good if you tend to play (defense) just one way.

I think this shows that they did a good job in the offseason during the scouting process of finding guys that we like and guys that we feel can play in this offense and hopefully that will show up here in the near future,

I think that will be the scouting report on us as we head into league play. Wofford was able to get into and under Chris tonight with their quick guards. At the same time, I think Russell Carter did a great job stepping up.

I think there is something for everybody. There are things for the adults to enjoy as well as the kids. The whole emphasis behind this is to showcase scouting and show what we've got going on ... and to encourage young people who aren't involved in scouting to become involved.

Just because we have not yet appointed a permanent manager, it doesn't means that our scouting team is not out there looking at players.

Kyle is one of those junkyard dog-type players. He is one that not many will account for in the scouting report. He is a luxury to have on the team.

I saw him play every day for six months. That's a little bit different advanced scouting report.

Our scouting report told us what they were going to do. They average something like 43 passes per game, so the job was pretty clear.

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Our scouting department sees these players and we know our development plan with each and every player. We communicate very well.

Our commitment is to remain an elite team. No question the playing field has been leveled (with the new collective bargaining agreement). We will do more research and development. We will add to our scouting staff.

Recruiting is a funny business, and so is scouting. Scouting is an inexact science. The one thing you can't project is the size of a guy's heart and how bad he wants something.

It doesn't hurt that I know him, but we made this trade based on our scouting reports from 2005. Arthur's got a good makeup. He's a gamer. He likes to win.

I think he was scouting because I saw him after the game.

It all gets back to scouting and player development,

It depends on what players are offered. The owners have a say in this, too. They want to do the right thing. If we get a good offer, we'll probably take the player. If we don't get good offers, we'll probably take the (draft) choice and do more scouting this winter and prepare for the draft. I think we'll get a good player out of this.

The 20-0 sounds good, and I'm not complaining at all about it, but we wasted about seven and a half or eight minutes before got to the scouting report offense.

I would like to be able to have more preparation time as a coach. The less prep time you have the more you leave the game to chance. The more likely an underdog is going to win that sectional final or a team less drilled in scouting and fundamentals might get through if you have less time to prep.

We have our scouting reports, but I expect that the pitching will be better. They come out, and they swing the bats. They are a great program historically.

We were a bit nervous when a few of the entourage came out scouting the site the previous day that they would change their minds about the tour. But they were actually excited and explained that Mr. Johnson was first a scientist and would really be interested in the equipment, the lab and the whole process. They are a very hands-on agency and told us they spend a lot of time in places like this.

We've got some scouting reports on them, and I think we kind of match up well with them. We're going to have to come in with our 'A' game. It'll be a big game and we get pumped up for the big games.

We've had great success, and Europeans have been a big part of that. When Scotty put together the Russian Five, that was really the start of the Red Wings we see today. I think it even had an impact on how we developed our drafting philosophy and scouting philosophy.

We have changed the entire scouting system and replaced some of the old scouts,

We revised our scouting report on Kentucky because of the way Perry played. This will be one of the few times where we face a team that has the size up front that we do.

We have worked hard to develop our international scouting and Phil and Hiroyuki have had a good relationship with the Tigers for some time. This agreement will help us in building a strong and trusting partnership as we seek and exchange information that allows us to acquire talent from Japan.

We'll pitch certain guys based on the scouting reports and position ourselves accordingly, just like always, ... We play defense as a team. It won't be any different.

We were hoping they weren't going to shoot the ball that well. That's the scouting report we had. Luckily, it worked out. The kids did a good job defensively and forced them to take the outside shot, which I thought was to our advantage.

We gave the team the Clemson scouting report tonight. Obviously we'll be somewhat familiar since we've played them before but that was a long time ago. I really trust my team to study that and be prepared for Saturday where we'll have a very light practice but we'll be going through Clemson's sets and get mentally prepared and try to take care of their bodies before we play a 3:00 game on Sunday.

We had done a good job scouting them. Our focus all week was on Keokuk, but this was a fun game. It was almost bigger to the community than it was to us. Things are just going our way right now.

We haven't decided. We're trying to get more scouting information on both teams before we make up our minds. We're leaning toward Cargill, but we won't decide until (today).

We were in the game. We were doing what we needed to do, we were paying attention to the scouting report.

You do a little more homework. You pay attention (during Friday's game) a little more because you don't have a lot to go on. It's tough. Scouting reports help a little, but you don't know until you see them.

We had no film (of the Ramblers) and no scouting report. We're fortunate to squeak out one.

We're doing nothing much different than normal. We're just looking at scouting reports and scrimmaged against Mt. Pleasant (Thursday), but we're just trying to get the kids as many reps as we can with what we're planning to do.

We definitely know who they are and what they like to do. We don't really need any in-depth scouting report because we've seen just about everything from them.

We didn't have any hint of any criminality. This is accidental, and we're going to look into ways to prevent accidents and make all scouting events as safe as possible.

The controversies don't flow down to the scouting level, ... They make not one whit of difference in how we conduct the program.

We weren't aggressive in the first half. We went deep into our bench in the first half and played a lot of players. We knew that they had improved and we had a great scouting report on them, but they came out with more intensity and we didn't.

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