Prove to them people that you should have gotten picked earlier, and then you make your money. The privilege is just getting drafted, and once you get picked, prove to them that you were supposed to be drafted.
I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.
On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.
I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.
You come from the college, you're the man. I was second-team All-American. I got drafted by Toronto, but they just took me because I was the best man on the board. They didn't need me. I didn't get a whole lot of help or guidance. I wasn't playing. I couldn't get reps in practice. And it's big-boy basketball. Grown men.
I really wanted to get drafted by the Knicks, and it was a dream come true. I wasn't even hearing the boos that night. I was just having a special moment with my family, hugging them.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.
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.
Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!
I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year's chance to make the team.
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
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.
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
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 used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.
I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.
My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.
I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
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.
During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
