Roy Clark

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.

American Entertainer

Evangeline Lilly

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

Canadian Actress

Laura Harrier

In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.

American Actress

Diane Ackerman

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.

American Poet

Asdrubal Cabrera

A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.

Venezuelan Athlete

Jack Rodwell

I got scouted at six by Everton. My parents said it was maybe a bit too young. A year later, I went down to trials at Everton and have been there ever since.

English Athlete

Danny Welbeck

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

Terry Rozier

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

American Athlete

Annette Funicello

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

Tony La Russa

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

American Coach

Often used in military or strategic settings, referring to someone gathering intelligence.

Military Context

Implies active seeking of detailed information, not just casual looking.

Information Gathering

Used in contexts where the information is vital for their group's planning or success.

Essential for Groups

Refers to identifying and recruiting skilled individuals for sports, arts, etc.

Spotting Talent

Indicates a professional or expert evaluating talent, not an amateur opinion.

Professional Eye

Associated with outdoor activities and personal development in youth organizations.

Youth Activities

Refers to an international movement with a strong sense of community.

Worldwide Movement

Conveys a hands-on approach to finding something or someone specific.

Exploratory Action

Implies researching or looking ahead for opportunities or risks.

Preparation

Conveys a sense of skepticism or disbelief about a piece of information.

Skepticism

Carries a tone that rejects a possibility or an idea firmly.

Dismissive Tone

 that would help them win games, and they went from a system that was based on baseball scouts who used to go out and watch players and use their instinct and experience, the scouts' instincts and experience, to pick players, from one to use smart data and rigorous statistical analysis to figure out how to pick players that would help them win games.

Anne Milgram: Why smart...

 You take all that information, and you stream it to your players. The good teams stream it in a way that the players can use. The bad ones have information overload. That determines good teams from bad. And now, your I.T. department is just as important as your scouting department, and data-mining is not for nerds anymore.

Chris Kluwe: How...

 not too deep but I definitely want to take my boots and pants off just so I don't get wet few snow flurries right now it's pretty cold out now so I want to stay dry if I can I'm in the habit of travel light for one thing when you're hunting you don't have a choice now today I'm just scouting but when I come

Crossing the Creek -...

 of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout the frontiers, they cut the pathways, they raise the buildings along the way.

E.O. Wilson: Advice to...

 high fence so they needed some help you see him scouting you're getting stretched from the guy below this officer who asked not to be identified believe socks the suspected fence coyote is trying to catch agents off guard I still waiting for the instructions

Fence Jumpers PIPE National...

 and magnetic signals that could help predict earthquakes. But imagine how much more we could learn if they could fly beyond Earth's orbit. That's exactly what organizations, like NASA, want to send microspacecraft to scout habitable planets

Will future spacecraft...

 additional cost when I say that prof. Scouts are the future of solar I don't mean in the distant future prof Scots are said to make their commercial debut this time next year the challenge we're facing now is the show they can reliably

Uncovering a radical...

 which means scout or messenger from the distant past reaching out to us. Now this discovery was important for many reasons, but to me the most significant is for what 'Oumuamua can tell us about the past of our solar system.

The story of 'Oumuamua,...

 reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy. So now, I'd like you to imagine playing a very different role, that of the scout. The scout's job is not to attack or defend.