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Success Quote by 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"

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Optimism, here, isn’t a vibe; it’s a workflow. Roy Clark’s promise of “a good year” lands like a pep talk, but the sentence is engineered to sound inevitable because it’s built on verbs: find, draft, sign, develop, win. He’s not selling hope so much as selling process, the idea that success is manufactured by competent people doing unglamorous tasks in the right order.

The subtext is classic American meritocracy, filtered through the machinery of talent-spotting. “Good players all over this country” flatters the audience’s belief in buried potential and the romance of discovery. It also quietly shifts responsibility away from luck. If greatness is everywhere, then a down season isn’t fate; it’s a failure of vision, evaluation, or follow-through. The “scouting department” language is telling: it frames achievement as an institutional pipeline, not a lone genius narrative. The star isn’t the superstar; it’s the organization.

Clark’s context as an entertainer makes the rhetoric feel especially strategic. He speaks like a manager because audiences respond to the sports-industrial cadence of confidence: collective “our job,” forward-looking certainty, championships as the natural endpoint. The repetition of “good year” at the end functions like a chorus, a reassurance you can chant. It’s salesmanship with a folksy accent - a way to turn uncertainty into a plan and a plan into belief.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Clark, Roy. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-im-going-to-tell-you-its-going-to-be-a-good-122562/

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Clark, Roy. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-im-going-to-tell-you-its-going-to-be-a-good-122562/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/so-im-going-to-tell-you-its-going-to-be-a-good-122562/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Roy Clark (April 15, 1933 - November 15, 2018) was a Entertainer from USA.

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