Theo Epstein Quotes

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Theo Epstein

Profession : Businessman

Birth : December 29, 1973

We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself.

Theo Epstein

I think everyone deserves more than one World Series every 108 years so.

Theo Epstein

No one is immune to needing to sit or needing to go down at the right time, and you want to give guys a chance.

Theo Epstein

You just make the right baseball decision. You don't necessarily worry about somebody's feelings or anything like that. You make the right baseball decision for the team first and then for the player's development as importantly.

Theo Epstein

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.

Theo Epstein

I believe in our players. That's why they're here. I also know slumping is part of baseball. What's surprising is sometimes when it lasts awhile, for really good players when it lasts awhile.

Theo Epstein

Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.

Theo Epstein

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

Theo Epstein

Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.

Theo Epstein

When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.

Theo Epstein

To win the World Series, you have to be able to do a lot of things well.

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Watching the Dodgers perform at a really high level is a nice reminder to us as to how high the bar is.

Theo Epstein

You have years where most things go your way, and you have years where more things than usual seem like a challenge.

Theo Epstein

There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons.

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I work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we were known nationwide as the Loveable Losers.

Theo Epstein

The 'Chicago Sun-Times,' I remember, ran a full-page, front-page photo-shop of me walking on water across Lake Michigan, as if by showing up I was going to miraculously fix the team's fortunes. Imagine their disappointment, then, when I announced a long-term rebuilding plan focused on acquiring young players and winning in five years.

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We knew the 2017-18 offseason would be one of our most challenging. We've known that for a long time.

Theo Epstein

You don't want to make a living or habit out of trying to solve your problems with high-price pitching free agents because over the long run, there's so much risk involved that you really can hamstring your organization.

Theo Epstein

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

Theo Epstein

If you want to continue to be good and perform at a high level and be deep in all areas, you still have to hit on some undervalued players, too. You can't just go out and sign marquee free agents or trade for players when they're at the peak of their value. That's not a formula for long-term success.

Theo Epstein