Leo Durocher Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 37 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Leo Durocher.
Famous Quotes By Leo Durocher
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
Kid, show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight. — Leo Durocher
Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. 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
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. — Leo Durocher
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. — Leo Durocher
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
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
Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth. — Leo Durocher
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. — Leo Durocher
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? — Leo Durocher
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. — Leo Durocher
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
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. — Leo Durocher
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
Winning is a habit. — Leo Durocher
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
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. — Leo Durocher
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can! — Leo Durocher
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
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. — Leo Durocher
God takes care of drunks and third basemen — Leo Durocher
Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. — Leo Durocher
You can't get any pictures from way back there. — Leo Durocher
You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. — Leo Durocher
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
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse. — Leo Durocher
There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate. — Leo Durocher
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. — Leo Durocher
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
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
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. — Leo Durocher