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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

David Carr

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

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.

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.

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.

For the first time fans will be able to follow the draft ù wherever they are.

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.

He's making big league plays out there. He'll be drafted as a shortstop.

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.

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.

The entire draft is an opportunity for us to improve the entire makeup of the team. I don't think it's a one?pick draft by any stretch.

The first game he pitched this year, I had 20 scouts out here looking at (Beno). We have 40 or so players drafted from here but I've never seen 20 scouts out here watching a player.

The idea is to try to sell this draft to the Sunnis. That's what this is all about.

Barbara Williams

All we have to do is get you to a point where you can write a good draft in 25 minutes. In 25 minutes, the people grading these essays are not expecting you to remember all the rules of grammar. To finish your paper is more important than having a perfect paper.

These are draft regulations. All input is being considered, and all information in the draft regulations is not final.