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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1964

Topics

ChanceBetterNeverFirstGetSure

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

John Barton

PoetryWorldWayEffectViewsThen

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

John Bates Clark

PracticeLawResultWorthQuestion

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

Sterling K. Brown

TimeSoulMeBetterDoingHobby

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

Rocco DiSpirito

WorkSpaceRestaurantPlaceRight

At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Mitt Romney

TodayTimeChanceThoughtAmerica

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Lou Reed

YouOutDepressingStillYourPrint

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

Jason Calacanis

MeDreamEntrepreneurDeserveNever

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

Anthony Trollope

MusicGirlLightDanceEyeVoice

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

Pierce Brosnan

MotherWomanMeHerSplitMade

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Pope John Paul II

SurviveHumanityChoiceNowPolicy

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Pope Francis

BetterPlaceMercyLordTortureUs

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

Tim Tebow

IntegrityMoneyPeopleMeBelieve

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