My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy. ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going …

- Drew Gooden

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

- Drew Gooden

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

- Drew Gooden

The relationships that I've built and the connections and the network that I have created playing on these multiple teams, playing for these multiple…

- Drew Gooden

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

- Drew Gooden

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my team…

- Drew Gooden

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not…

- Drew Gooden

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role …

- Drew Gooden

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

- Drew Gooden