Joe Maddon famous quotes

04-17-2025

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.
-- Joe Maddon

#Baseball #Pressure #Pleasure
Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.
-- Joe Maddon

#Pressure #Pleasure
I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.
-- Joe Maddon

#Philosophy #Player #Reality
Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.
-- Joe Maddon

#Night #Cards #Pressure
Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.
-- Joe Maddon

#Pressure #Moments #Pleasure
If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.
-- Joe Maddon

#Hate #Lying #Two
I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.
-- Joe Maddon

#Fun #Done #Enjoy
You have to anticipate a call's not going to go your way. It happens to everybody. It happens to both sides every night, so you can't necessarily go there mentally. You've just got to keep moving through the moment.
-- Joe Maddon

#Moving #Night #Way
I love everything about that because when he goes out there Javy Baez is not afraid of making a mistake, and that's big thing when you get players that are en masse not concerned about making mistakes, really good stuff can happen. That's, he leads the pack with that.
-- Joe Maddon

#Mistake #Player #Stuff
I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.
-- Joe Maddon

#Hurt #Say Anything #Helping
If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.
-- Joe Maddon

#Thinking #Ideas #Fields
Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.
-- Joe Maddon

#Giving #Guy #Credit
I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.
-- Joe Maddon

#Thinking #Games #Gains
Maybe tweeting is a more appealing method of getting your thoughts out to the masses a little bit more often. That's the only way I consider it. Otherwise, I do it for the fans' purposes; it's definitely not to try to empty my brain out to anybody else.
-- Joe Maddon

#Brain #Trying #Fans
I've always - outside of the outfielders running over the hump, and it could be slightly dangerous, and it can impact play; of course it can. But on the other side I think, again, just if you're pitching, a relief pitcher, I think it's kind of a great place to get involved in a game.
-- Joe Maddon

#Running #Thinking #Games
Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.
-- Joe Maddon

#Practice #Different #Want
I have not seen the National League enough to know.
-- Joe Maddon

#League #Enough #Knows
As a bench coach in Anaheim I used to sit down below with Sosh (Scioscia) on that little area, and then when you'd get up on top, it was an entirely different vibe, man. Two, three steps up, it's a different vibe. You feel everything.
-- Joe Maddon

#Men #Two #Benches
I know Daniel Murphy is a really good hitter. He's definitely pulling the ball right now for power, although he did go left-central the other night against the Dodgers, I believe.
-- Joe Maddon

#Believe #Night #Balls
I think Daniel Murphy definitely is premeditated what he'd like to do. He's very good about not missing his pitch when he sees it. I know the ball has to look like at least a softball right now, at least, maybe more to the beach ball variety. He's seeing everything that well. He's a good hitter that is seeing the ball really well right now, and you have to make good pitches to get him out.
-- Joe Maddon

#Softball #Beach #Thinking
I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more neighborhood-esque. And I like the idea, and I love the new downtown ballparks. I love when the venue is situated in a vibrant part of the urban setting.
-- Joe Maddon

#Mom #Dad #Kids
You rarely think about just throwing to third base to get one out. That's probably the industry's fault with all of that.
-- Joe Maddon

#Thinking #Faults #Throwing

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