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Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Joe Maddon

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Joe Maddon
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: February 8
Baseball Coach
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
Joseph John Maddon
Joseph John Maddon Jr.
Exceed
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Baseball
Pressure
Pleasure
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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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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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