Draft Order Quotes

You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.

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

The baseball draft is very different from the NBA or the NFL.

I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.

I just want to win. I want to mess up the draft. I don't want the first pick.

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

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

I didn't even care where I was drafted.

When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

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

In the draft you always have a special bond and connection, especially if you have one that goes right after you, so it's kind of always, I guess everybody thinks you're competing.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.