Leo Durocher Quotes
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In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
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It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.
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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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What are we out at the park for except to win?
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There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.
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It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
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Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.
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Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
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Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.
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Stick a fork in him. He's done.
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
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I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
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This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.
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And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
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Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.
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Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
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God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
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What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
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When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
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