Theo Epstein Quotes

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

Authorizers do a big dog and pony show, but when it comes to the top line, we have open warfare about what the top line will be …

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.

Sometimes, a player and a coach can have a different opinion. In the end, the best interest of the end, the best interest of the club has to be kept in mind.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

There were various things behind my departure from Napoli. The will of just one party is not enough.

If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.

Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

You have to stick to your guns and still know when to be flexible. That's something I've had to learn-which battles to fight.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.