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Leo Durocher Quotes
"I come to win."
"Nice guys finish last."
"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand."
“Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.”
"As long as I've
got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it."
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their
eyesight, yes."
"Show me a good loser in professional sports, and
I'll show you an idiot."
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't
any rules, how could you break them?"
"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."
"How you play the game is for college ball. When
you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters."
"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."
"If I were playing third base and my mother were
rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh,
I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats
me."
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