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Leo Durocher Quotes & Sayings

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I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. — Leo Durocher

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse. — Leo Durocher

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last. — Leo Durocher

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. — Leo Durocher

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. — Leo Durocher

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'. — Leo Durocher

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can! — Leo Durocher

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. — Leo Durocher

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. — Leo Durocher

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. — Leo Durocher

My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first. — Laraine Day

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired. — Leo Durocher

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton. — Leo Durocher

Winning is a habit. — Leo Durocher

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. — Leo Durocher

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. — Leo Durocher

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? — Leo Durocher

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse. — Branch Rickey

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies — Gabby Hartnett

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. — Leo Durocher

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. — Leo Durocher

You can't get any pictures from way back there. — Leo Durocher

God watches over drunks and third baseman. — Leo Durocher

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. — Leo Durocher

Kid, show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight. — Leo Durocher

God takes care of drunks and third basemen — Leo Durocher

Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth. — Leo Durocher

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. — Leo Durocher

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. — Leo Durocher

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. — Leo Durocher

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate. — Leo Durocher

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse. — Branch Rickey

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. — Leo Durocher

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. — Leo Durocher

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. — Leo Durocher

What are we out at the park for, except to win? — Leo Durocher

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. — Leo Durocher