Gooden Quotes

#1. (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

Ira Berkow

#2. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Marilyn Monroe

#3. There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

Charles Williams

#4. My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

Dwight Gooden

#5. If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

Alex Ferguson

#6. I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Drew Gooden

#7. My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Dwight Gooden

#8. I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

Drew Gooden

#9. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.

Chloe M. Gooden

#10. I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me.

Dwight Gooden

#11. I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.

Dwight Gooden

#12. He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

Dwight Gooden

#13. The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Dwight Gooden

#14. To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

Eric Hoffer

#15. I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Drew Gooden

#16. If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

Dwight Gooden

#17. My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going hard. That's what I really kind of relied on to get me through the transition period between two teams.

Drew Gooden

#18. I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

Drew Gooden

#19. You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

Drew Gooden

#20. There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

Drew Gooden

#21. When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

Dwight Gooden

#22. Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

Dwight Gooden

#23. When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

Drew Gooden

#24. We have to believe that the desires we have in our hearts will be fulfilled if we continue to trust and believe in him and His Word.

Chloe M. Gooden

#25. God hears and sees you. He knows your deepest desires, and wants to fulfill them. But sometimes we just have to be patient.

Chloe M. Gooden

#26. Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Molly Quinn

#27. Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God's fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.

Chloe M. Gooden

#28. One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

Dwight Gooden

#29. I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

Dwight Gooden

#30. I don't care how much money he (Frank Viola) makes. He can have my locker, I'll take him to all the best restaurants and show him New York. He can even have my wife, but he can't have my number, no way.

Dwight Gooden

#31. Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

James Balog

#32. If you truly want the universe to support you in becoming all you can be; be prepared for having any false supports removed from your life; leaving you standing as the warrior that you are.

Renae A. Sauter

#33. You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

Dwight Gooden

#34. It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye.

Kristin Cashore

#35. I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

Dwight Gooden

#36. Maybe I'll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness.

Philip K. Dick

#37. I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

Dwight Gooden

#38. Thoughts come c.early while one walks.

Thomas Mann

#39. I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

Drew Gooden

#40. I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Judy Blume

#41. I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

Amanda Beard

#42. If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

Steve Pavlina