Scouting Report Quotes

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.

I scouted all the girls at Wimbledon. I wasn't impressed.

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

Everybody wants to be a first round pick.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

I feel like the Knicks drafted me because they knew what I could do.

Before the combine, there were a lot of questions about whether I could guard multiple positions.

When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.

People see me scoring now, but I got drafted because of my defense.

Sometimes a manager will assess the other team through the warm-up and try to get an inkling as to what way they are going to be playing.

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.'

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

I want to attack matchups on special teams.

The night before games, I try to get some shots up. Early on the game day, I come early in the morning to try to get some shots up. I just try to do the same things: go through the scouting, watch some clips before the game, just try to get my body ready.

You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.

I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.

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