Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John McCarthy

The SCLC draft has a whole mile of good intentions.

Ralph Nader

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

Kevin Williams

The Yankees drafted you in the second round.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nancy Kress

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.

We didn't want to have to go into the draft trying to hit 10 different spots. We had hand-selected a group of guys that we thought if we could get one or two, we'd be in great shape. We've ended up with four.

Jon Gruden

You can't come in as a seventh-round draft choice, or any kind of draft choice, never practice and expect to make this football team. It's too bad, but he's got to get himself back out here in a hurry.

Kyle Seager

We've had some phone calls, my family and I have talked about it, and we'll just wait and see what happens. If the draft doesn't work out, UNC is a great option to have. It's a win-win situation.

Matt Hughes

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

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

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.

Dan Bartlett

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

we all know how it works -- he's a second-round draft pick, people want to see him play.

There is no such thing as a draft exception.

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

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.

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.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We need a scorer. It doesn't need to be a shooter, but it's got to be a scorer. There's a lot of help out there. I'm comfortable with that. ... What we project as our needs, (the 2006 draft should be) strong at that.

Herman Edwards

Obviously, if we don't win a game soon here, we're going to have a high draft choice,

but the question is, would this draft satisfy the Sunni Arabs' demands.

Adam Vinatieri

Nugent's a little different -- he's a draft pick and I was a free agent. I felt like I had to go out and perform every single day and prove myself. You feel like you're always 20 minutes away from being fired.

I expected to go third round or somebody would invite me. I'm just glad we all got drafted. Knowing I got drafted in the second round and being able to go home and play, that's a good thing.

I expected (Lions president) Matt Millen to come in and do a great job. He's a great football guy. I just think things haven't gone his way with some draft picks.

Matt Millen

If someone really wants him, we'll get it done. And there are teams that want him. There's a lot of stuff involved - the draft is involved, the compensation, all of that stuff.