Mike Scully Quotes

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

Growing up, I was a parks and recs kid.

My freshman year, I started working with a group called Touchdown for Kids.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

I like to go home and get involved in my community.

I was a Girl Scout!

I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.

Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am.

I am a charity campaigner.

We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

You can make the First Lady's job whatever you want it to be. To some women the job is more involved with the entertaining. They feel at home doing the things at home.

When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.

I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

I went to the Women's Campaign School at Yale; I went to Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Training, women's campaign fund training. I got to know the district really well by talking to the county chair, getting to know politics, working on some local races.

I want to do something that is not political. I want to do some fundraising, just as a volunteer.

When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.