#on

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

— Dwight Gooden

#done #enough #get #i #my own

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

#before #big #big thing #come #get

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

#back #give #given #much #nicest

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

#command #get #gonna #good #got

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#bring #creative #creative input #director #editing

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#back #back up #before #break #ceremony

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#how #i #i can #movies #my own

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#about #average #before #between #her

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#first #i #lot #missed #much

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#auditions #being #being broke #broke #bus