Best Draft Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We will bring everyone possible, from all segments of the public, from all levels, we will draft them, we will give them equal opportunity, and as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter where you came from, what your parents did, what part of the country you live in, you can reach any unit.”

“We try to talk all the time about a vision when we come up with players. Even when we draft players, what's the vision? What's the Year One vision? What's the Year Two vision? How do we see this player... A lot of stress and we understand that, but we kind of put the numbers in front of them.”

“We will have to draft other populations, primarily the ultra-Orthodox on a large scale.”

“I didn't want to watch the draft and then not get drafted.”

“The system, the Draft are put in place to help teams that are struggling get better - be able to compete.”

“That would just mean so much to be to be thought of as the best player in the draft.”

“I'm never going to forget draft day.”

“LeBron had a pretty bad draft suit.”

“I got drafted by the Titans in the sixth round. So I got drafted, but not by much. There's nothing guaranteed for a sixth-round draft pick.”

“Sometimes, obviously it's an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.”

“With anybody we're looking to draft, we do an extensive amount of work on their background, history and all that.”

“It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even getting to the Euroleague and everything. But everybody wants to play in the NBA. So when draft night came, it was a dream come true.”

“The draft's crazy. Everybody knows that.”

“I watched myself get drafted by myself. I walked out of my own draft party because I was a little frustrated.”

“I didn't know there was an NBA draft. But in my mind, I was always telling myself, one day, 'I'm going to be in professional basketball.' And I believed it. One day, I will. I believe this every day. I think about this every day. I was going to do whatever I had to do to be there. And it comes true.”

“Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually later, in the second or third or 100th draft of the music, when it can be so easy to cover up the original sentiments by making the music more ornate or cloaked.”

“So, there's no guarantee in the NFL that if you've got the No. 1 pick or you've got a top-five pick, that you're going to be able to draft a franchise quarterback.”

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

“I'm the best player in the draft. I truly feel that way. But I feel like you can ask anybody in the draft and they would have said the same thing. I just feel like I showcased it on many levels and I was put through so many different scenarios where I had to make the best out of it. And I had a lot of success with it.”

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

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

“I didn't think I was going to be drafted, to be honest. I'm so serious. I mean, wholeheartedly, too. I don't know. I didn't realize it, probably, until about a week and a half, two weeks before the Draft.”

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

“If you draft me, then you'll have somebody who's going to improve throughout my entire career.”

“It's the NFL. There's a draft every year. There are players out there, guys out there working hard. That's why I've got to work hard. I've got to be better than those guys, and I look at everyone as competition.”

“I want to show that even though I'm 'old' in terms of my draft class, I keep getting better.”

“The Jets gave me a chance, moved up to draft me, took a chance on me.”

“There's so many stories about guys who made it to the NBA without the draft. Overseas, whatever, call-ups.”

“I'm a wide-open book. I talk to guys coming out in the draft every year. I'm a wide-open book. I'll give you my experiences. And I'll tell you what I went through. But I would never project on another player that you should do this or you should do that.”

“I have plans of becoming a director soon. I just finished my script. I don't know when I'll direct the film. It is ready and has reached its third draft.”

“It's been super weird because you have zoom meetings and then it's like high school again, I'm stuck at home with my parents and the only time I get out of the house is to workout. Let's just say it's not been how I envisioned my pre draft process going.”

“I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a film probably.”

“I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.”

“To add a player in the draft is something we always look forward to.”

“Your life can change in one year. You can go from a nobody, not even getting any playing time on a college team, to being one of the most highly touted quarterbacks coming out of college for the draft.”

“If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.”

“First, you need to write the script, re-work on lots of things. First draft, second draft, once the final script is ready then you visualize which actors fits the role in that the particular script they've written.”

“When you're 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.”

“Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.”

“You've got to make the teams want to draft you.”

“I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football.”

“You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.”

“Often as a writer, you get your first draft out, and then you look and think, 'Now, what have I got here.' You're really just throwing mud at the wall and then going, 'Oh, there's a pattern there.'”

“I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.”

“I see myself as the No. 1 player in the draft, but it is what it is. You can just take it day-by-day, put in the work, and the draft is going to be the outcome of whatever the draft is.”

“Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.”

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

“I was fortunate enough to do a docu-series throughout the draft process, but I did that to show the behind-the-scenes stuff.”

“In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.”

“I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.”

“The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.”

“The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.”

“Once you get into the NFL, it doesn't matter what draft pick you are, what round you are, if you're undrafted or not. It's football time again. The draft, all of that doesn't matter anymore.”

“Honestly I'm excited for whatever team wants to draft me, and I'm excited to make an impact right away.”

“That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I've ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.”

“Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.”

“I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.”

“Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.”

“The draft is an exciting time.”

“I'm not gonna be someone I'm not, because I don't want them to draft someone who's not me, and then I have to try and fill that role. I'm gonna be me, and hopefully a team falls in love with me.”

“When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.”

“The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.”

“When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.”

“In high school, I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick.”

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

“You have to constantly work on your script if it needs it. You don't accept, 'Oh, I did a draft and...' No, it's your responsibility to work on the script as much as possible and make it better and better.”

“I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.”

“With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.”

“I draft tweets, like, 20 times.”

“I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.”

“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.”

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

“I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.”

“I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.”

“Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.”

“There's times where you finish the draft and you think it went well and you get here, and realize, man, these guys need more work.”

“Coming from Europe as trying to get in the NBA, the draft process, the draft workouts - really, really hard. They work you out for five hours. And then playing three on three, two on two, one on ones. And it's against five guys to try to make it too.”

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

“I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft.”

“Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.”

“I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.”

“No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.”

“I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.”

“Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.”

“In L.A., we have a saying - 'What do you do?' It's less of a question and more of a self-defense mechanism for wayward screenwriters looking to slip you a first draft, or the occasional actor looking to get in on the latest shoot. But I hate the question because of my own answer - I write about games.”

“You want to draft a guy that has production and gets the ball in the end zone.”

“I will never support a draft.”

“Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.”

“I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.”

“I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.”

“During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”

“I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.”

“I feel like whatever team drafts me I'd fit into because they're going to get the best receiver in the draft. Regardless of if they really need a receiver early or not, the way I'm going to come in and work, they're going to get the guy they hoped they drafted and be excited about it.”

“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.”

“It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.”

“I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.”

“I had that mindset that I feel that I am the best prospect in the draft, but everything happens for a reason.”

“If I follow the media and everyone that tries to set expectations for me because I'm a high draft pick, if I follow that, I will never become a great player.”

“A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.”

“To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.”