Quotes from Joe Maddon

I am into my routine and I believe in the following: exercise, adequate amount of sleep and a good diet.

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.

You can get caught up in the game, just like everybody else in the park. But I can't play favorites and hope this guy gets a hit or that guy gets an out. I have to make decisions based on data and common sense. I have to manage every game to win.

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 don't want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that's not my agenda.

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don't, you don't.

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.

I like courage, I like fearlessness, I like not being afraid of making mistakes.

My mom was a bit more excitable, but my dad was the most patient man I've ever met.

If you permit yourself, you can fill your day up pretty easily.

When you permit yourself to lose for more than 30 minutes then it can carry over to the next day. I think it's important to understand that. I think that mindset is contributing.

If you want to see how good your team is, look at your bench.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.

Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.

I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.

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.

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.

My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.

I want crazy in the clubhouse every day.

Listen, the word 'party' has taken on a negative connotation in our country these days. It's really bumming me out.

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.

If it looks sexy, wear it.

I want more of an opportunity to do nothing, and I mean that in a positive way.