Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Donovan

We could have had potentially seven or eight first-round draft picks in our league right now.

Roger Goodell

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Usually the first day of the draft is on the day of the spring game, so you miss it. But we have some equipment people keep an eye on it and they will come and let us know.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Jack Rio

We don't ever feel like we want to go into a draft and, particularly early in the draft, go after need. I think that's something you look at more on the second day, if you haven't been able to have it line up the way you'd like it to the first day.

We do need some new players on this team. We're getting to the situation where if we can have two more good drafts as good as the last two, we'll be OK.

Mike Shanahan

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

You can get booed on draft day and loved on the parade.

Braylon Edwards

That's what I do. That's what I was drafted for, ... I was drafted to make plays, and it gets to a point where you have to give it to the guy who is here to make plays.

Tom Benson

We drafted Terrell Owens in the first round ... YOU hammer out his extension.

We're all professionals. They went through the same draft process to get to where they are as I did, so I'm going to make plays, they're going to make plays.

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

We are still holding discussions on four points but the draft will be finished.

The letter was drafted by Bush-Cheney '04 and all of us are signatories... All veterans have a right to speak.

The Constitution, the last draft I saw, had a right to religion but not a right to zone.

Clint Eastwood

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Ron Francis

(Coach Eddie Olczyk) and I are good friends, and we talk a fair amount, ... I think it probably would have been more enticing had the season picked up last February to do something (in Pittsburgh). But I actually called Mario (Lemieux) to congratulate him when the draft lottery when down, and he said, in passing, 'Are you going to play?' I said, 'No, I'm done.' And that was the extent of the conversation.

Anything can happen for us. You know how the draft goes, it's hard to tell. It's in God's hands now.

As a player, I just want to see all my friends go high -- and I'd like to go as high as possible as well. It's exciting that we might actually tie a draft record.

Bob Hayes

After me, everybody started drafting speed. But they used to laugh at a lot of those guys because they couldn't catch. Otto Graham once said that I had 9.1 speed and 12-flat hands, but I proved him wrong. I was the leader of the pack.

Quincy knows there are no guarantees and it's very early in the whole draft process. If it indicates that he's a first-round pick, he's going to remain in the draft.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb

Jan Eliasson

This draft resolution represents a unique opportunity for a fresh start for human rights.

This draft in particular, no one had any idea which way it would go.

They use (the law) to silence and oppress the opposition. If they had wanted to end the state of emergency and to present an alternative draft law, they could have done that.

Mike Sherman

They used to play pretty much with the same four guys. But they've drafted well there, so their rotation now allows them to play at a high level consistently, and it's really benefiting them.

They started using it in draft form for months. That tells me there is an extremely high demand.

They may be overall the most talented team in the league. They have 14 seniors starting. I've been told five or six or seven of those kids are going to be draft picks.

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

This is a team that uses high picks on linemen. When they drafted us, they expected us to be successful. And right now that's apparent.

Helio Castroneves

It's a track where everyone can go flat easy. It's a track where equipment sometimes takes over for the driving. But that's for speed. The draft is very important here and we have been learning what it takes, so hopefully we will be able to learn from that and win.

Drew Brees

It was disappointing to have that happen, because I think that was maybe the writing on the wall that says this is my last year in San Diego, ... This is the last year on my contract, and they're going to pay this guy $15 million or whatever it is that the fourth pick in the draft gets, so I know what that means.

He threw way too many pitches last night, with 100-plus still trying to get through five innings, ... But he's getting plenty of seasoning this year. He has exceeded expectations for a Rule 5 Draft pick. Is he a stone-cold lock to make the starting rotation in 2006? No. Is he a candidate? Sure he is.