#drafted

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ↗

— Alan Brien

#been #being #collecting #congenial #debt

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#boy #days #drafted #i #me

I was drafted during the Korean War. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#during #i #korean #korean war #war

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play. ↗

— Jamie Moyer

#drafted #dream #opportunity #play #pro

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#army #average #because #bright #business

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army. ↗

— Rick James

#drafted #get #go #going #i

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#drafted #even #happy #i #just

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. ↗

— David Cone

#baseball #baseball player #drafted #high #high school