Dwight Gooden Quotes

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

I live for the pressure, I live for the moments when I'm deep in the match, out of breath, hurt and feel like throwing up. It's in those moments that I push through, I keep punching, I keep going forward, because no matter what, I will never stop.

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting.