Dwight Gooden Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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