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Joe Maddon, born on February 8, 1954, is a renowned baseball manager with extensive experience in professional baseball. He is known for his unique tactics and leadership style, having led multiple teams to outstanding achievements.

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“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.”

Ifs Two Might Lying Hate Forever Honest Like Me Hate Me

Author:Joe Maddon

“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.”

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“Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.”

Giving Sometimes Guy Credit Other Guys Pitching

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“I have not seen the National League enough to know.”

Knows Enough League

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“You rarely think about just throwing to third base to get one out. That's probably the industry's fault with all of that.”

Thinking Industry Thirds Faults Throwing

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“You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.”

Play Moments Able Havens Tough Tough Moments

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“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.”

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“I haven't had a chance to really view the pitches straight up.”

Chance Views Havens Straight Up

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“[Red Sox and Blue Jays] formula's been they have such durability in the bullpen.”

Red Blue Formulas Durability Blue Jays

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“Everybody's going to be clamoring, that's the way you should work your bullpens from now on, but you have to have the appropriate people to do that, and of course during the season it would be much more difficult as opposed to the microcosm of the postseason.”

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“We're obviously having a tough time, like the other teams did.”

Team Tough Tough Times

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“I'm very pleased with all of our guys. We had the one good game offensively in Cleveland. We just need that one moment. We have to have a one-game winning streak tomorrow, and if we do that, I really would be feeling pretty good about going back to Cleveland.”

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“Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.”

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“Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.”

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“When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.”

Men Games Saws Sitting Cameras Just Being Benches Sitting On The Bench

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“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.”

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“It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.”

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“My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

Said I Can Helping Hurt Right Now Reporters Say Anything Scrum

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.”

Thinking Feels Helping Bigs Games Gains Relief Pitcher

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“When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.”

Matter Play Worry Bites

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“I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.”

Wells Done Fun Enjoy Having Fun

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“Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.”

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“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.”

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“Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.”

Night Pleasure Pressure Cards Permit Every Night Exceed

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“Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.”

Moments Pleasure Pressure

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“Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.”

Pleasure Pressure Exceed

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About the Author

Born: February 8, 1954
Known for: Baseball Manager
Quotes: 34

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