Leo Durocher Quotes

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.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.