Leo Durocher Quotes

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

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

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

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

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

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.

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

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

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.

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

What are we out at the park for except to win?

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.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

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

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.