The thing I’ve always heard about the Cubs being lovable losers, I never quite understood that. That’s not the way I was raised, getting here and not paying attention to the superficial nonsense, the superstition that really has dragged a lot of people’s minds down ... to escape that is great, to continue to move it forward. The perception has changed.

Joe Maddon

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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.

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

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

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I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire... by Joe Maddon

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

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

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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.

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

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

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When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

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I love everything about that because when he goes out there Javy Baez is not afraid of making a mistake, and that's big thing when you get players that are en masse not concerned about making mistakes, really good stuff can happen. That's, he leads the pack with that.

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You have to anticipate a call's not going to go your way. It happens to everybody. It happens to both sides every night, so you can't necessarily go there mentally. You've just got to keep moving through the moment.

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It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

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

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

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If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

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I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.

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You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.

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I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain fe... by Joe Maddon

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

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Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching. by Joe Maddon

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

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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.

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I've always - outside of the outfielders running over the hump, and it could be slightly dangerous, and it can impact play; of course it can. But on the other side I think, again, just if you're pitching, a relief pitcher, I think it's kind of a great place to get involved in a game.

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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.

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I have not seen the National League enough to know. by Joe Maddon

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

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