Quotes About Draft

Honestly I'm excited for whatever team wants to draft me, and I'm excited to make an impact right away.

Coming out as a rookie, no. 4 draft pick, you expected to see some playing time.

You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night.

Once you get into the NFL, it doesn't matter what draft pick you are, what round you are, if you're undrafted or not. It's football time again. The draft, all of that doesn't matter anymore.

You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

condemning a war that, due to college draft deferments, was being fought largely by soldiers drawn from the working class, with blacks a proportionately high percentage.

Everything with the draft process, from the combine to visits to pro days, that's great but it's not football.

First, you need to write the script, re-work on lots of things. First draft, second draft, once the final script is ready then you visualize which actors fits the role in that the particular script they've written.

As I prepared for the 2009 draft, I vividly remember meeting with a prospective agent that told me if I put in the work, I could be a good special teams player in the league for a little bit. On one hand, thanks for the honesty, I guess. But I thought I might be capable of more.

My senior year in high school I knew was going to be drafted into the NBA.

The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.

The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.

Any team that wants to draft me is a blessing to me.

The script is just a blueprint.

I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

LeBron had a pretty bad draft suit.

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.