Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reggie McNeal

I would (switch) if I had to, but I feel like I'm a quarterback. If I get drafted and they switch me, that will be it.

Michael Ryder

He's doing all right. He was sure excited to be drafted by Calgary, that's for sure. He's doing really well, actually.

Sigi Schmid

He should be getting some minutes for us this year. That's our expectation. That's why we drafted him. If we didn't expect him to play, we wouldn't have taken him.

Herman Edwards

He's going to play right away. That's what we drafted him for.

He was the first player I drafted who signed,

Charles Woodson

It's not too much pressure. That's what we drafted him for. You throw him in early, and you hope that midway through the season, he's playing like he's been there before.

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.

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.

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.

John Bradley

I was praying to God that he would pass me. I hate setting the pace for races. He went by me and it was like NASCAR. I just drafted off of him.

I'll always keep it. I'm very grateful they drafted me and it's something I'll always remember. But I've moved on from that and I don't think there's anything I need to prove to them.

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.

Shemar Moore

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

Braylon Edwards

That's what I do. That's what I was drafted for, ... I was drafted to make plays, and it gets to a point where you have to give it to the guy who is here to make plays.

Mike Shanahan

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

Tom Benson

We drafted Terrell Owens in the first round ... YOU hammer out his extension.

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

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.

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

Gavin Hood

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

Harold Feinstein

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

This would be a league where guys have played (previously in the minors). The drafted guys would be pushed back.

The pro scouts are still pretty interested. The process he's going through right now, he has a school (where), if he doesn't get drafted where he wants to get drafted, he has somewhere to fall back and get an education.

Mike Tice

Troy Williamson showed some signs of why we drafted him. He's got tremendous speed and he's a playmaker.

Mike Tice

Troy Williamson showed some signs of why we drafted him, ... He's got tremendous speed and he's a playmaker.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Bill Cowher

We used to get them in the third and fourth round because no one else was looking for that guy. We didn't have to take them that high. Now those guys are getting drafted higher because a lot more teams are looking for them. If you wait, someone else is going to grab him before you do.

Braylon Edwards

When you get drafted this high, you want to prove that you're not a bust, ... You want to prove that it was worth their while.

Joe Dumars

We loved his talent when we drafted him, but it didn't work out here in Detroit.

This report could not have been any better if it had been drafted by the opposition,

Alexei Yashin

When I was drafted there wasn't so much high expectations of me. Nobody knew I'd go so high like that. With him it's different because there is a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations.