I was drafted during the Korean War.
I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.
Everybody wants to be a first round pick.
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 definitely would embrace that opportunity to be the No. 1 overall pick, obviously that every quarterback would love to be that. It's no different for me.
I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.
Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.
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.
The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.
When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.
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.
You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night.
At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.
You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.
When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.
The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.
The draft is an exciting time.
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.
You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.
I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.
I wasn't ready to get drafted in the first round.
I had talked to a lot of people in Golden State's front offices before the draft. They said they liked me, but they had a lot of guards, so I didn't think that I would end up there.
