1.
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
2.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher
3.
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher
4.
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
Leo Durocher
5.
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
6.
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher
7.
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
Leo Durocher
8.
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
9.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Leo Durocher
10.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher
11.
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
Leo Durocher
12.
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.
Leo Durocher
13.
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
14.
It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
Leo Durocher
15.
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Leo Durocher
16.
God watches over drunks and third baseman.
Leo Durocher
17.
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher
18.
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Leo Durocher
19.
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
20.
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.
Leo Durocher
21.
Stick a fork in him. He's done.
Leo Durocher
22.
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
23.
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
Leo Durocher
24.
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Leo Durocher
25.
There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
Leo Durocher
26.
What are we out at the park for except to win?
Leo Durocher
27.
When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
Leo Durocher
28.
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
29.
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
30.
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
31.
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.
Leo Durocher
32.
Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.
Leo Durocher
