Joe Maddon Quotes on Time (23 Quotes)

Spring training performances are totally skewed most of the time.

I'd just like to see him go out there and put together some innings and some pitches. Again, his stuff is phenomenally good. We've just got to get him to pitch a little bit more and be a little more consistent with his concepts on how to get batters out. But, physically, this guy is very, very talented. We'll get beyond the other part. Eventually he's going to figure out, mentally, exactly what he wants to do in regard to pitching these games. And when he does, he's going to be very good for a long time.

I said you're feeling pretty good because you've been taking your time. Continue to take your time.

I was trying to question him on the mound, and he kind of said that it's happened to him before, but then he said that it's never happened, so I was having a hard time. Because when it was in the forearm and then it was in the thumb, so it was just really too strange to leave him out there. That's what I thought.

I just felt he is the right man at this time.

What did George Patton say It's how you bounce after the fall. We'll look to see how high he bounces the next time.

I like the way he began that game. I thought he was throwing the ball pretty well. The velocity was good. The location was good. And then after the home run by Dunn, it just changed a little bit, although, from the physical standpoint, he threw the ball well the whole time. From my perspective, I liked what I saw. It's just the quality of pitch diminished a little bit.

You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. When they have pitching like they do, you can't expect to come in here and just try to go toe-to-toe with them and beat them 9-8 all the time. You're just not going to do it. So we got a good pitching performance and won tonight.

Then hopefully, by the time we go on the road, he might be ready for us. Maybe by the Oakland series.

He just did not get the ball where he wanted to. They're swinging the bats well. It was only 5-2 when we took him out at that time. So I still thought we had a pretty good chance, had we been able to hold that deficit, because our team can score some runs. That was the unfortunate part. They all of a sudden got a touchdown and a field goal, which made it much more difficult.

We just want to avoid the same kind of early rush back like we did the first time. He's going to tell you it's great. He's going to tell you he wants to play, and that's all good -- it's great to hear that. But we don't want to have him have another setback.

I like it. I like when pitchers throw long toss. I'm sure it's been part of his routine for a long time. It's impressive to see.

His day shall come, and it should come for a long time.

That had nothing to do with history. That was present time, right there.

What is conventional wisdom Who created conventional wisdom in the first place It's just something we've been doing for a long period of time, and while the game is the same, the game has changed in other ways. If you have enough information, you might be able to take some chance based on the information.

Because before he came up, we talked about it being a one-game situation. He made it easy for me, because it's not easy to tell somebody like that, that, 'We're sending you right back,' because he's done everything we asked him to do. I thought he reached another level mentally. ... I believe once the mental mechanics are in order, the physical mechanics follow. He's getting real close to being here a long time.

He felt really good, because he was taking his time. So I told him to continue taking your time. I think he's going to leave here (Friday) feeling pretty good about himself.

When I was with the Angels, this guy used to beat us up every time. So I've only seen him when he's good.

Hendrickson is on for Thursday. We're going to send Edwin Jackson back down. Jack's going back out and Mark will be back at that time.

We were expecting something bad to happen on a daily basis. You try to convince yourself not to think that way, and we talked about it at the time, but that doesn't work.

When you have a big lead and are losing it, when that starts to occur, everything turns to slow time.

Those things, every guy I've ever known who had one never gets well quickly. They think they're OK then they try something and whoops. Or if they sneeze, laugh, or cough hard, they feel it. It's just one of those things you have to be patient with. Every guy I know who has had one of those takes a little time.

We've got to see them in the game as Spring Training progresses. We're actually looking to see the hitters who are in better shape. Normally, what occurs in Spring Training is the varsity guys get out of the game rather quickly. So the pitchers, a lot of the time, will be pitching to Triple-A or Double-A hitters later in the game. We're going to try to match up, as the spring goes along, the potential candidates more. Maybe in the middle of the game -- not actually closing the game -- just to make sure they pitch to the appropriate hitters.