Sam Hinkie Quotes

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

The draft is an exciting time.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.

Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.

I remember players talking to Willie Brown in my presence. Receivers asking, 'Is this who you drafted? I can't believe this is who you drafted.' I was hearing it from my defensive backs: 'Man, you got a long way to go.'

Whether it's drafting or player development, the ultimate is putting a team together.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

If it wasn't for Paul Brown, I probably wouldn't have a job because he basically evolved scouting.

My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

I wasn't ready to get drafted in the first round.

No teams have asked me to play wide receiver.

To be honest, after the draft, I'm always excited.

Prior to the draft I met with the Vikings about four or five times.

When you get a draft pick right, you should be given full credit.

For a club to come and get you, they are going to use you at some stage.

Like any year, any year with any team, you're always going to look to the draft to help strengthen your roster and free agency.

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I don't wake up thinking about one individual player move.