Joe Maddon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I like the word pressure a lot.
I like the word expectations a lot.
Not a little bit, a lot.
Because whatever you're doing, if you do not have pressure and expectations applied to it, why do it?
I mean, what am I doing here?
Even if you play golf, you want at least a quarter, you know.
You said that in spring training.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is.
It's a good thing.
And I think too many times people run away from those words.
And they see them as being a negative or ominous.
And I honestly believe it's completely the opposite.
Think about it.
You just talked about the most disappointing time you ever had was after the 2015 season.
And that totally raised your level of expectation to next year.
And you ran right toward that.
That whole thing, that whole shirt that I built up on that, that took me some time.
That was done on my iPad.
And I don't know why, but I do things like that once in a while.