Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Calhoun

He's an incredibly gifted kid with great potential who probably needs to come back next year but can't, because he's going to be drafted in the top five, probably. He can't come back and pass on millions and millions of dollars. That's our system. I hate it, but I'm going to tell him if he's going to be in the top five, which I keep hearing, he needs to go.

Laini Taylor

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

Teams want more speed at all 11 spots and the emphasis is getting to the quarterback. If you have that skill, you're going higher in the draft than ever before.

Ralph Nader

These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers,

That's just something on the draft board, spitting in the wind right now, basically.

This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissioner, Bert Bell, had his office.

What rookies expect to start? I mean, the first pick of the draft may start. It's just turned out to be a great fit for me.

We knew going into the draft we weren't going to get all of them to come in. If we can get 50 percent of the draft picks to training camp, we will be doing extremely well.

Kevin Williams

The Yankees drafted you in the second round.

John McCarthy

The SCLC draft has a whole mile of good intentions.

Dan Bartlett

You hit panic mode if you don't like the first draft at all.

There?s not a player in our league that you can give me in place of (Sawyer). He?d be my first draft pick out of this league.

Gary Graham

We had the first pick in the draft and there were kids and parents telling me not to pick their kid because they wouldn't play for Snider.

John Bolton

We are very disappointed with the draft that was produced last Thursday. We don't think it's acceptable.

Eben Moglen

We think it's a serious problem; we don't have a solution to recommend. We regard today's draft as simply serving notice that this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

David Andrews

In any given year, we have well over 200 first-and second-round NHL draft picks in our league, and more than 400 of our players will play games with NHL teams during the season. There's lots of great young talent.

I mean, it's a guessing game, this whole draft thing,

Alex Gordon

I know they've been drafting lot of good players, and they have a lot good young players. It might take a while, but I'm fine with that.

I know when I was going through the draft how stressful that was for me, sitting around all day.

After we got it passed here, he helped so many other states pass laws, 34 in all. He flew to places like Tennessee, Minnesota, to help them draft legislation. It made such a difference.

Mark Sanchez

That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

David Carr

They haven't said anything about the draft to me.

If we think it will further the purpose of considering and drafting remedial legislation as we move forward, then it's appropriate.

Jim Haslett

If you draft someone in the second round, you should feel comfortable with them. Hopefully, he can get playing time with the first team.

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

Brad Soderberg

If Ian gets drafted, that's going to hurt us, there's no way around it. What can I say? I don't think even if we find out he gets drafted in June, we can find someone to replace him in that short period of time, no matter where in the world we look.

Reggie Bush

I can't wait to get out on the football field. The seasons go by so quick and it seems like waiting for the draft and the process takes forever. I want to get back to playing football; all of us do. There's no spring ball because we're all going to the draft ... we're ready to get back to some football.

Bill Belichick

I don't think there's anything special about where we've taken them or haven't taken them. It just worked out that way. It's not with any intent to take them or not take them. It's kind of how the draft falls, in that particular year, in that particular round.

Craig Thomas

I don't think there's any inclination to have a draft in the foreseeable future.

Jeff Kinney

I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.

I don't think a second-round draft pick has ever done this, getting a max contract. Mike has really worked hard to get to this point. I'm very happy for him.

Sue Miller

I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.