Maddon Quotes

#1. Nine equals eight ... just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes baseball, and is a diehard Rays fan, and who knows that Joe Maddon deserves more than just the 2008 Manager of the Year Award.

Tucker Elliot

#2. Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Rebecca Miller

#3. 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

#4. you can't just let people down, dammit.

Hanif Kureishi

#5. We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.

Jerry Brown

#6. Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

Joe Maddon

#7. Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Matthew Specktor

#8. Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.

Paul McKenna

#9. I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

John C. Reilly

#10. Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. 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

#12. It's a silly argument, and unnecessary. Creativity doesn't happen "in here" or "out there" but in the spaces in between. Creativity is a relationship, one that unfolds at the intersection of person and place.

Eric Weiner

#13. Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Joe Maddon

#14. An answer is planted in every question; never respond with a straight answer to a question that makes no sense to you.

Anonymous

#15. Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Joe Maddon

#16. I promise you, Donald [Trump], there's nothing about you that makes anyone nervous.

Ted Cruz

#17. I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

Tamaryn

#18. She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

Sarah Dessen

#19. O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

T. S. Eliot

#20. 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

#21. The only way to become the man I was always supposed to become was to serve a higher cause than myself.'
'You served it with your life, and, in some ways mine as well.

Victoria Alexander

#22. ... it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness stopped me cold, the walls pulsed in on me. How cheap was I?

Colum McCann

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

Joe Maddon