A biography for Joe Maddonhasn’t been written yet.
“There is nothing wrong with change.”
“Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.”
“I'm a journey guy. I'm motivated by the day.”
“I'm all for, almost like, a general amnesty program.”
“I love Ray Charles.”
“I work from a position of positivity always. I don't dwell on negativity, and I always believe something better's on the horizon.”
“Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.”
“It's all about 'thought.' Whatever you think, wherever you think, that's pretty much how you're going to manifest yourself to the rest of the world.”
“A day off is not a day off if you find out at 4 o'clock you're not playing.”
“I get up every morning, and walk down to the Starbucks, sip my coffee and do some business with my iPad.”
“Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.”
“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.”
“My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.”
“Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.”
“I get flooded with nostalgia, I do. And it's okay. It's a good thing.”
“I have no interest at all in the success of the Seattle Mariners.”
“With wine, you don't really have to know what you're talking about, you just have to know what you like.”
“There is no Game 7 without winning Game 6. And there is no Game 8 if you don't win Game 7. That's why you do what you have to do.”
“People who say spring training's too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it's the perfect length of time.”
“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.”