Famous Quotes & Sayings

I always thought I would get drafted or somebody would invite me, but just to know that I got drafted in the second round and to be able to go home and play, I think that's a good thing.

He was the first player I drafted who signed,

He has the option of going overseas (to play basketball) and maybe trying to be a second-round draft pick in the NBA. And his third option was going back to school to get his Master's.

Helm has some speed, and May showed poise with the puck. As late-round draft picks they're young guys who have to get stronger, but they played well.

Today is not the end, ... We still have big problems?. The whole draft is open for review.

Pete Carroll

Whatever team drafts him will get a productive player who should be in the league for a long time.

Measure 37 has not been a model for us. We're drafting something that will work for Washington.

Jon Gruden

Monte's been here and had his system in place for some time, ... It's a one-gap scheme, and they've been drafting players that fit it. We're trying to do that on offense.

Adam Vinatieri

Nugent's a little different -- he's a draft pick and I was a free agent. I felt like I had to go out and perform every single day and prove myself. You feel like you're always 20 minutes away from being fired.

Herman Edwards

Obviously, if we don't win a game soon here, we're going to have a high draft choice,

Bernie Bickerstaff

We need a scorer. It doesn't need to be a shooter, but it's got to be a scorer. There's a lot of help out there. I'm comfortable with that. ... What we project as our needs, (the 2006 draft should be) strong at that.

When you come in as a high draft pick, you do have a lot of pressure put on you -- not necessarily thrust upon you by your own team, maybe outside sources that have expectations.

OK, then, let me inform Magic fans right now that the next NBA draft is scheduled for June 27, 2006.

Nancy Kress

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

Harold Feinstein

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Brett Hull

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

John Dingell

This staff draft is a very useful starting point in the process,

Gavin Hood

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

This would be a league where guys have played (previously in the minors). The drafted guys would be pushed back.

The pro scouts are still pretty interested. The process he's going through right now, he has a school (where), if he doesn't get drafted where he wants to get drafted, he has somewhere to fall back and get an education.

I thought our draft was a huge success, ... We got everyone we wanted. This will give us a good start.

I think what will happen is that the draft will be presented this evening to the speaker of parliament.

Kurt Busch

Yeah, a little slicker. I've got it working in the draft now.

We're elated to get him with a sixth-round draft pick.

We're drafting rules of the road in the new global economy. We've made progress, but there's still a long way to go.

Bill Cowher

We used to get them in the third and fourth round because no one else was looking for that guy. We didn't have to take them that high. Now those guys are getting drafted higher because a lot more teams are looking for them. If you wait, someone else is going to grab him before you do.

When you are picking at 53, it is hard because there are 52 picks in front of you and a lot of teams are picking twice. You will have a better feel what is going to be at 53 once you get through the first round because we put down everyone's needs so once they draft in the first round you can focus in on what is going to happen in the second.

Ellsworth Huntington

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged.

Bob Latta

I have always been thankful that so many of our country's greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.