Scouts Quotes

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys.

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.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.

As a scout I had a great many dangerous missions to perform and while I was in many close places always succeeded in getting away safely for by this time I was considered the most reckless and daring rider and one of the best shots in the western country.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

The scouts [in "Moneyball"] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.

In spring of 1876, we were ordered north with General Crook to join Gen'ls Miles, Terry and Custer at Big Horn river. During this march I swam the Platte river at Fort Fetterman as I was the bearer of important dispatches. I had a ninety mile ride to make, being wet and cold, I contracted a severe illness and was sent back in Gen. Crook's ambulance to Fort Fetterman where I laid in the hospital for fourteen days.

There is no probability that we shall again be called upon to defend our Territory [the New Mexico Territory[ against hostile invasion.