Quotes About Draft

I was pretty darn lucky to be selected by the Steelers. A round earlier or later in the draft and I might have been with a team that didn't make it to the Super Bowl.

Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft of Lincoln's Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer's rule applies: Have the courage to write badly.

The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell that story.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

Draft night for me - I watched it in my dorm in college. And it started off with just me and a friend, because I knew I probably wasn't going to get picked right away. I thought it was going to be a little later. But, you know, you watch the whole thing. You never know what might happen, so you gotta watch.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do.

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.

I'd get rid of it, just get rid of the draft altogether. We'd just deal with the salary cap.

The Bucks and John Hammond chose me in the draft, got me in the NBA, kept me in the team with a role from my very first season, and they are my basketball family.

Thanks to Lawrence Jacobs, world's most enthusiastic and supportive spouse, who read the first draft of this book and said, "I'm glad we have different last names.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.