Theo Epstein Quotes

I can't worry about what I'm doing to be the National Player of the Year; it's what am I doing to help my team be successful?

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I want to do whatever will make my team win.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

I want to go and get more goals, create my chances for the team, and do my best for Tottenham Hotspur.

I'm focused on going out and winning ballgames. Focused on getting better with the team every week.

I'm looking forward to playing my part in keeping United at the top of the game.

If I'm chosen for the Asian Cup, then I must help the team win. That's the bottom line.

I don't want to be one of those guys who is just there. I want to be a guy that's on a team that makes it and be an All-Star and has a chance to always win an NBA championship.

It doesn't matter if you start the game: as long as you finish it well and the team wins, that's the main thing.

At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special.

The team's success always came first for me.

There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn't like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it's just great.

You play this game, that's what you play this game for. You play the game to go to the Super Bowl and that's the only reason why we play to win and make it to the Super Bowl. So anything short of that would not be acceptable and I think my teammates know that as well.

That's the competitive nature in me. Just wanting to be the best and wanting to do everything I have to in order for this team to make it that far. You put pressure on your shoulders.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.

You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

You look at the quality players and look at the leadership we had, and it's easy to understand why we won.