Leo Durocher Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Leo Durocher:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#64cbee4e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#e6ac538e

What are we out at the park for, except to win?
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#1a54a89c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#667f7808

You can't get any pictures from way back there.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#23209727

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#b21408b4

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#99c0af8c

I come to win.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#02f91c04

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#1e76992d

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#fa95ca8c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#81fd03c8

God watches over drunks and third baseman.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#e45f6a2e

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#b186fe85

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#afa4f122

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#d052e281

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#7db17d88

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#e6e31bcd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#60c34c05

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#9f0352f4

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#cc8ae52f

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#3b4bfacd

Nice guys finish last.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#9e83d5a9

Winning is a habit.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#0d78dc2e

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
~Leo Durocher


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-durocher-quotes/#01980da9

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