I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn’t really listen to those who did after I was drafted.
I love Tom Brady because he’s a Rudy. He was drafted low, worked hard.
Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.
The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn’t deserve to be undercut. And I didn’t want that to happen.
I would love to play for Leonard Hamilton and follow in the footsteps of my father at Florida State, where he played wide receiver and after a great career as a Seminole was drafted into the NFL.
It’s possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military… but actually drafted into combat. I’m very uncomfortable with that.
I wasn’t going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.
I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I’m at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he’s gone.
I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That’s how New York fans are.
Not everyone gets the chance to be drafted.
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
The night I got drafted to the A’s, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I’ve been a football player my whole life.
That’s what drove me crazy is people would say – even people who would try to be nice would be like, it’s not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it’s not the same thing. You can’t be given an NBA job. I got drafted.
My whole career, I’ve been an underdog, I’ve been underestimated. Therefore, I’ve had a chip on my shoulder my entire career. Being drafted in the second round when you think you’re supposed to be in the first round, a lottery pick, the chip grows bigger. And you have more to prove.
I was very lucky to get drafted into the situation I came into. I could have gone somewhere where other guys would resent me because they want the ball.
It was my dream for a long time to play in the NBA. When I was drafted, it was a challenge for me. I decided to go and see where I was compared to the best players in the world.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller’s stunning work ‘Catch-22,’ and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
I wasn’t drafted. I was just playing really good basketball, enjoying playing basketball with my national team and never really thought: ‘I have to get to the NBA.’
That’s one of the reasons I was drafted because I blocked three shots a game in college so I got to continue doing that in the NBA.
I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall – and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.
Without question, Alabama’s House Bill 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal-immigration state law ever drafted.
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
Obviously, getting drafted into the NBA is an amazing feeling. So I was happy regardless of who drafted me.
I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.
