Dwight Gooden Quotes

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

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Children
  • Help

• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Long
  • Problems
  • Ignore

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • Lost
  • Completely
  • Racetrack

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Great
  • Different
  • Why

• To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Everything

• We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Business

• 'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Success
  • Law
  • Opinion

• From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Unknown

• But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Mind
  • Strong

• I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Strong

• You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Movie

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

  

  Joey Fatone NSYNC
  • Good
  • Food

• Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • Pretty

• When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• 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