166 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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