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.
When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.
I'm getting drafted because I can guard multiple positions. Anything that comes other than that, there's no pressure there.
When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.
I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
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.
The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.
When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, 'Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.' I knew I'd have an automatic chance to win a championship.
Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.
I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.
I've been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn't even make it in the N.B.A.
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
It's been a dream come true, you know, just making it to the NBA and being drafted by a great franchise like Boston.
When you are getting drafted you have an idealized situation, but you really don't know how things are going to go down.
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
I'm just happy to be drafted. It's my lifelong dream. Wherever I end up, I'll be happy.
I would like to get drafted at all and I will be happy to play for whoever drafts me.
I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.
I cried when I was drafted by Buffalo... You can't be a great quarterback in snow and 30 mile-an-hour wind.
The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.
I was pretty wild when they drafted me. I was more of a flop-around-stop-it-any-way-you-can kind of goaltender.
I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.
You get drafted by an NHL team, you're kind of living the good life. So, I mean for me, it's all awesome.
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.
Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.
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.
When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.
If you're an adult, if you are eligible to be drafted and vote, then there's a certain amount of decision-making power, and I think we have to be respectful of that.
The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
I was drafted way later than I should have been, and all that shows me is people don't see my true value.
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.
Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
It was amazing, really a dream come true, to not only get drafted by the Heat, but then also to be here with Pat Riley and the rest of the coaching staff.
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.
It's always different when a guy gets drafted and developed and comes up in his first organization and makes an impact. There's something special and timeless about it.
My goal when I got drafted was to always stay in one place the whole time. No matter what the situation was.
My family grew up Pittsburgh Steelers fans, and it's crazy I even got drafted there.
One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.
Engineers don't get drafted to certain companies. That's kind of peculiar in the capitalistic ways of the United States. But that's how it is.
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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.
I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better.
I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
When I was drafted in Cleveland, I wanted to turn this team back into a perennial playoff contender and to win the Super Bowl.
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.
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
When you get drafted and sign a large contract, people expect results right away.
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.
Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
Going to the draft, I took two years off to serve my church and my God. There were no secrets, there was no deception; I didn't ask anyone to be drafted No. 2.
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