Gooden Quotes & Sayings

The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for these multiple coaches and assistant coaches - I wouldn't give that back for anything, because I believe that's going to prepare me for my next step, whether that's going to be on the floor coaching or in an office doing some type of management work. — Drew Gooden

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

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

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity. — Drew Gooden

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

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

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

Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come and save you. Remember, Ruth went out to take care of herself and her mother and law and gathered grain from the fields.
God brought Boaz to come assist her in her life, not save her. Its a difference. No man can save you, only God can. — Chloe M. Gooden

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

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

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

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

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep. — Dwight Gooden

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

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

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. — Dwight Gooden

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

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

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

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to. — Dwight Gooden

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

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

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

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

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad. — Dwight Gooden

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

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

(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

I became a reporter because I never found out the ending to my own story. Thirty years after Ben's abduction, the only answers I could find were for others, the victims, or those they left behind. The crime beat was a natural for me. The people I wrote about were the most fragile, the most broken, and they needed the most answers. I pieced together the frayed strands that had once been their lives, not always happy, but better off than where they ended up. I had to tell their stories. I felt like I owed the victims at least that...Julia Gooden, THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HIM — Jane Haseldine

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded. — Drew Gooden

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

I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me. — Dwight Gooden