Words matter. These are the best Joe Maddon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are some pretty darn good bottles of wine for $50. I think I can tell that from a bottle of wine that costs $15 or $20.
Once you get the hang of how all this works, it’s no biggie. It’s baseball, man. It’s baseball.
Listen, the word ‘party’ has taken on a negative connotation in our country these days. It’s really bumming me out.
I really hope that you all understand that social media doesn’t count at all. Twitter doesn’t count at all.
At the end of the day, it’s all about the players. We can talk methodology or analytics, but it’s about the guys on the field.
I like courage, I like fearlessness, I like not being afraid of making mistakes.
Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.
I’m a journey guy. I’m motivated by the day.
You do connect with people, regardless of their age. And how do you do that? By taking an interest in what they do, where they’re coming from.
I’ve always loved the Belmont Shore area because I’ve always thought it had a kind of European vibe to it. This to me is the best area in Southern California.
When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don’t, you don’t.
You could say ‘lame duck’ or you could use ‘free agent.’ I think they are both the same term.
When I was living in California, I would ride my bike and see homeless people pushing their grocery carts with all their belongings, and it really upset me. I always said if I had a bigger soapbox, I would do something. And I thought the best way was to cook food – I’m Italian.
Hitting coach John Mallee, he comes to the ballpark way too early for me, man. He drives me nuts.
Sometimes we all gain this elitist status mentally that inhibits us from being the kid that got you there in the first place, and I never want to inhibit that youthful demeanor. I think it’s a very big part of success.
To just be all analytically inclined or heartbeat inclined, you are going to lose; you are not going to be the best version of yourself.
The Rays are kind of the envy of the industry based on so many good arms with so much good stuff and they seem to be able to handle high leverage moments… Nobody develops and executes pitching as well as they do, and that’s a big part of their success.
When you are working with a highly professional, motivated group that is accountable, the more freedom you give that group, the more discipline you’re going to get in return.
I want more of an opportunity to do nothing, and I mean that in a positive way.
I don’t want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that’s not my agenda.
Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it’s doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.
Going into the past, I’ve always thought Mark Twain would be cool to hang out with for a little bit.
There’s nothing wrong with having a good party. So if you have an opportunity to have a good party, go out and have one.
My father was a plumber and I’m from the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, and I promise you, I’ve been to Birmingham and Montgomery and when the plane lands, it’s really reminiscent, topography wise, to northeastern Pennsylvania and I feel that same vibe.
We have our own ocean, we’ve got a great bike trail – I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.
Bob Clear, nobody’s ever heard about except for some people who have been in the game, was probably my main mentor in the game of baseball.
Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.
I make spaghetti and meatballs, I got that from my mom.
I get up every morning, and walk down to the Starbucks, sip my coffee and do some business with my iPad.
First of all, Marty Foster is a really good fellow. No. 2, Google or YouTube the time he called Ben Zobrist out on a strike three against Joe Nathan couple years ago that gave Joe Nathan his 300th save.
When I look back, my journey isn’t about a small-town kid from Hazleton traveling around the country, but about the years I put in to get to this place in my life. Playing and finding out you’re not good enough, managing in the minors, working in player development, coaching and learning from the best minds in baseball.
You really need to travel to other major-league venues to understand what you’re missing.
I’ll always be a member of the Rays in my heart, absolutely. Just like with the Angels. It’s no different.
If you want to see how good your team is, look at your bench.
I think there’s a reason why fans have been turned off a bit by our game. That’s because the game looks the same no matter where you go.
If it looks sexy, wear it.
Mazzaro’s is absolutely one of the finest shopping experiences anywhere and I wish I got there more often.
You need to be crazy to be great.
I’ve always liked a guy who can really power the ball in the 2-hole.
Of course you don’t want to make outs on the bases , but there are times you have to be assertive in order to get other things that you want.
The Trop is not a major-league facility; it has nice air-conditioning.
I was never a protestor, don’t get me wrong, I was never like a vocal… what was the line I used to repeat to myself?… I was a nonconformist in a conforming society, that’s what I thought about myself back in the ’70s.
I’ll never forget the first time I rode a bike with pedal straps. I stopped at a traffic light and fell over like Arte Johnson in ‘Laugh-In.’
When you go through a full season, some guys are going to get into some bad spots, and you have to stick with them because that’s what they are there for, and I think part of it is building confidence.
I think I’ve had some of my better ideas on a bicycle.
If the playing field is not level, if there’s sign stealing going on and we’re not participating ourselves, that really puts you at a great disadvantage.
Sometimes it’s better to run toward the fire.
I was as tight with the Cubs group as I was any group.
I promise you, your hotel room is going to be no more comfortable than my RV. And I’m going to tell you, you might prefer my RV. I swear to God, it’s really that comfortable. Awnings outside, and if you want to cook outside, a tailgate kind of thing. There’s a fridge that’s underneath and comes outside. It’s beautiful.
I’m a product of the ’60s and the ’70s – slightly rebellious back then in college, not so much in high school, when I got to college I think I was. And I think a lot of where I’m at right now is rooted in a lot of hypocrisy that I recognized back then that I never wanted to be personally.
You have to get uncomfortable to meet your goals.
If you don’t have a team that can run, you have to put the big gloves on and duke it out.
It’s not easy to play a guy in the field after he’s just pitched. There’s a time for arm recovery too that you have to be cognizant of.
My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.
You can talk about Phil Jackson for years when he was with the Lakers and the Bulls, I used to read a lot of his stuff.
With wine, you don’t really have to know what you’re talking about, you just have to know what you like.
But overall I’ve always learned to play well in the sandbox with the people I’m working with. I think that’s my minor-league training.
I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.
It’s much more fun to be involved, much more fun to be under the scrutiny, much more fun to be second-guessed than to not.
I’m all for, almost like, a general amnesty program.