Theo Epstein Quotes

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I don't have even a moment of regret for leaving my career behind.

I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.

It is painful to say that the best player you have is better off trying something new.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I've very much moved on and I want to pursue other things. I've done 'Emmerdale,' I wanted to move on and do other things.

It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have won four Super Bowls, they still have difficulty with that transition. They believe they're not ever going to do anything that important again.

I'm glad that I walked into my purpose. I'm glad that I walked into something that was a smooth transition from football.

I'm not going to broadcast forever. I'll probably want to do something else in basketball, which will probably be running a team or at least helping run a team.

I had left my career to join the party. But now it has become difficult for me to continue and so I resign from its primary membership.

We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.

I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.

I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead.

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.