Theo Epstein Quotes

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

Our show is about starting over.

It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

The first advice I have to give the party is that it should clean its slate.

I intend to ruin the Foreign Service. I mean ruin it—the old Foreign Service—and to build a new one. I’m going to do it.

The place needs a complete overhaul.

Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

If you reach a point where your entire farm system is in the big leagues, you've traded a couple guys for players who are now in the big leagues, you know what you do? You start over in your farm system, and you keep developing the talented players you have.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

To be worn out is to be renewed.

With destruction comes renovation.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh.