Drafted Quotes

You've been drafted into a war you didn't start, ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depended on your success. - Warren Buffett

You're seeing more and more college guys getting drafted, and more and more college guys playing in the NHL. - Eric Boguniecki

You'll see guys on both sides of the ball get drafted, but I don't know if there will be more than three or four. There will be a few guys who sign as free agents, I'm sure. And that's all you want as a player, just an opportunity to get into camp and show what you can do. - Brock Spack

You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, you're going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they don't want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early. - A.J. Hawk

You turn on film and he produces. I don't understand him not being drafted, but I'm not a scout. The combine to me, I don't know -- just turn on the tape. I don't think you need a combine. - Jake Delhomme

You hope there are going to be three drafted. If there aren't, you adapt. - Matt Millen

You have to want it to play at this level. This is probably the most stressful thing I have ever done. There is a lot of fitness; it's more focused and more productive. This is professional and you learn to be professional. A lot of guys get drafted and decide they don't want to do this. - Andy Gruenebaum

You have to look at where he came from, undrafted, unlooked at, nobody really knew who he was. That's a very humbling experience, but I think he appreciates the opportunities he has because he didn't have them in college. - Jerome Bettis

You don't aim for it, but you can build an organization that way. I think we've done a good job as far as the players we've drafted except for the first year that I was here as general manager. - Allard Baird

You can't shut yourself off from hearing it, ... I've heard everything from late first round to fifth or sixth. I really can't think about that now. All I can think about now is having a good year. This is my senior year. In my senior year of high school I had no offers. So it doesn't make a difference to me what anyone says about me now. I have to go out and play hard and prove myself once again. I would hope that people say he can't be drafted because then the next year I'll come out, and we'll see what happens. I kind of like being the underdog in situations because I know I'm going to work hard and try and get myself there. - Bruce Gradkowski