I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire…

Some guys, when they get drafted, they only think about themselves. They go buy cars and houses. I just wanted to take care of…

— Bam Adebayo

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more…

— Erin McKean

Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here.…

— DeMar DeRozan

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the…

— Martin Brodeur

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.

— John Stockton

I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they…

— Warren MacKenzie

You get drafted on potential.

— Channing Frye

I knew I'd get an opportunity, and it's up to me to make the most of it whether I got drafted or not. If…

— Jordan Rodgers

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had…

— Adam Oates

I got drafted in the first round of the NFL, that's pressure enough.

— Brady Quinn

I never thought I'd get drafted, let alone make the big leagues.

— Patrick Corbin

I think everyone wants to get drafted as high as they can. That's the way I look at it as well.

— Auston Matthews

Listen, we've drafted guys that wouldn't come in for workouts before. It's not the end of the world.

— Danny Ainge

To me, it was so exciting that after just a short time of being on my own in NXT, I proved that I could…

— Carmella

The goal my entire life was to get drafted. I never cared if I was No. 1 overall or Mr. Irrelevant.

— Blake Bortles