Dwight Gooden Quotes

United States, Baseball Player
November 16, 1964

Dwight Eugene "Doc" Gooden (born November 16, 1964), nicknamed "Dr. K", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Gooden pitched from 1984 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2000 for the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In a career spanning 430 games, he pitched 2,800 2⁄3 innings and posted a win–loss record of 194–112, with a 3.51 earned run average (ERA), and 2,293 strikeouts.

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

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

Dwight Gooden
- Lost
- Sleep

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

Dwight Gooden
- Good
- Bad
- Father
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
- Winning
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
- Good
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
- Parents
I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me.

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

Dwight Gooden