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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

— Adam Oates

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Nick Ferguson

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

— Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

— Ed Koch

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

— Bo Jackson

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

— Rick James

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

— Gavin Hood

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

— Shemar Moore

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

— Allen Iverson

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

— Craig Venter