Leo Durocher Quotes
"Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop."
- Leo Durocher
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot."
- Leo Durocher
"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Play, Saying)
"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Power, Baseball)
"What are we out at the park for, except to win?"
- Leo Durocher
"God watches over drunks and third baseman."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: God)
"Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it."
- Leo Durocher
"Nice guys finish last."
- Leo Durocher
"You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Nothing, Umpire)
"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: May, Rain, Tomorrow)
"Winning is a habit."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Habit, Winning)
"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."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Mind, Reading, Umpire)
"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
(Related: Day)
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Integrity, Umpire)
"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."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Mother, Winning)
"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Effort, Rules)
"I come to win."
- 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
(Related: Money, Winning, College, Play)
"Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you."
- 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
(Related: Death)
"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Church, Baseball)
"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it."
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Chance)
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
- Leo Durocher
(Related: Rules)