Top 133 Drafted Quotes

It feels really great to finally be able to have the moment of being drafted No. 1.

Just because you’re drafted, No. 1, doesn’t mean you’re going to make a team and, No. 2, it doesn’t mean you’re going to be around a long time. Especially at receiver, where there are only five and the last two have to play a lot of special teams or they’re gone.

Most guys in my position don’t get drafted to such a high-caliber team like the Celtics, so it makes me work harder because I have to compete and earn everything.

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win – I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn’t trust each other – hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

Boy, I’ll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

Because I was drafted high, I got the reputation of being conceited, like I’m too good for this person or that person.

I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions you could go. Every night, it was different. Every night. It was a different town 7 nights a week and twice on Sunday.

The one thing that I do have that I really like is I framed some of my jerseys. In college, I played for Team U.S.A. I framed some of those jerseys. I framed my jersey when I got drafted by the Padres. I do have my first stolen base ever from when I stole a base in 2015. I have the actual base, which is pretty neat.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

You get drafted on potential.

I cried when I was drafted by Buffalo… You can’t be a great quarterback in snow and 30 mile-an-hour wind.

During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I’d get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.

During my first eight years at the Revs we drafted really well, but I got very little from the last two drafts that I took part in.

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

You come from the college, you’re the man. I was second-team All-American. I got drafted by Toronto, but they just took me because I was the best man on the board. They didn’t need me. I didn’t get a whole lot of help or guidance. I wasn’t playing. I couldn’t get reps in practice. And it’s big-boy basketball. Grown men.

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’

I was going to get drafted, but I didn’t really want to go into the Army.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn’t really care anything about winning.

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. ‘Great,’ I said at the time.

When you are getting drafted you have an idealized situation, but you really don’t know how things are going to go down.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.

I wasn’t a fan of the Sixers. My dad was a big Mo Cheeks fan, and he wanted me to be drafted by the Sixers. My thing was, if that could make my dad happy, then that would make me happy, you know what I mean?

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.

My family grew up Pittsburgh Steelers fans, and it’s crazy I even got drafted there.

Coach Pederson is the one who drafted me. He was the only coach who flew down to Texas and worked me out. I was only worked out by one team, and that was by Coach Pederson… the Philadelphia Eagles took a chance on me.

It doesn’t matter where you get drafted.

If I’m able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.

It’s been a dream come true, you know, just making it to the NBA and being drafted by a great franchise like Boston.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

There’s a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.

I felt like I was one of the better point guards in the draft, maybe the best. But falling out of the first round and being selected in the second round, the number really doesn’t matter where you get drafted – it’s about the fit.

Ever since I got drafted by the Yankees, I’ve been working on my swing.

I feel like whatever team drafts me I’d fit into because they’re going to get the best receiver in the draft. Regardless of if they really need a receiver early or not, the way I’m going to come in and work, they’re going to get the guy they hoped they drafted and be excited about it.

I wanted to be on ‘Saturday Night Live’ when I was a kid. It was kind of like growing up playing a sport, wanting to be drafted by your favorite team.

I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year’s chance to make the team.

I played for Miami, with LeBron. They cut me. I got drafted by the Lakers, they traded me to Miami. Bron got there, they cut me. I remember it like it was yesterday. So yeah, it’s a chip on my shoulder.

When I first got drafted, I’ve really grown. Coming in, I was kind of nervous but honestly I’ve been really blessed going to two playoff series, one against Miami and the next year against Chicago and the Celtics. I’ve progressed easier.

I don’t think the Lakers really knew me when they first drafted me. They just saw my name and my size and my stats. They just picked somebody because they had to.

I feel like the Knicks drafted me because they knew what I could do.

You get drafted, you perform like a Pro Bowler, then they pay you. But there’s certain teams in this league, that’s not what they’re trying to do.

I don’t think the day that I was drafted that I expected to be the starting quarterback for the Rams as a seventh-round pick.

Being drafted 13 definitely motivates me, but I love where I was drafted, I love the opportunity I was drafted into. But the 12 guys ahead of me are in the back of my head all the time.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I’ll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn’t.

I didn’t even care where I was drafted.

I don’t care if I’m drafted one, five, 72, or last pick. I’m going to come in with my head low, ready to work, and that is not going to change me. That’s why, whatever team drafts me, you’re going to get the same person, the guy that is going to be a competitor, a guy that is passionate about the game.

You look at the NBA: there’s all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they’re in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn’t teach kids how to play. We’ve got these workout coaches that don’t teach kids how to play basketball.

It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don’t know where it takes you sometimes.

When I got drafted, I just wanted a jersey. Once they gave me the jerseys, like, I was just hoping that they kept me on the team.