Leo Durocher

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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Chance
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I come to win.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Motivational
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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Funny
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
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God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
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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.
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
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Winning is a habit.
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What are we out at the park for, except to win?
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You can't get any pictures from way back there.
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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Nice guys finish last.
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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.
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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.
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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
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How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
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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.
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Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Motivational
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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
Collection: Baseball
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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Drinking
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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
Collection: Play
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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Men
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It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Nice
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Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Baseball
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Stick a fork in him. He's done.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Baseball
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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Way
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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
Collection: Fall
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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
Collection: Insanity
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When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Sports
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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
Collection: Running
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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
Collection: Baseball
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What are we out at the park for except to win?
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Winning
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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
Collection: Order
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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
Collection: Winning
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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Baseball
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Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Fall
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Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
- Leo Durocher
Collection: Baseball
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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
Collection: Reading