Best Joe Maddon Quotes & Sayings

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit. — Ellen G. White

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it. — Robbie Coltrane

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

Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won't find yourself begging others for scraps of love. — Lysa TerKeurst

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language. — Sean Berdy

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

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene. — Alice Hoffman

Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive — Sunday Adelaja

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'. — Will Self

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. — George Santayana

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots ... — Alison Moyet

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon

the laws remain undisturbed (ch. xxvii.). Apparent exceptions, the miracles, originate in these laws, although man is unable to perceive the causal relation. — Maimonides

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one. — Hiro Fujiwara

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

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

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

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure. — Joe Maddon

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins. — Grenville Kleiser

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything. — Troy Polamalu

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

You are a prisoner of your thoughts. Expand your thoughts and get out of the prison. — Debasish Mridha

Truth needs not flowers of speech. — Alexander Pope