Theo Epstein Quotes

You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.

In your mindset, you just have to know there's going to be another opportunity, and you have to keep focused.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.