Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Leo Durocher

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Leo Durocher.

Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Leo Ernest Durocher, nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,008 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks tenth in career wins by a manager. A controversial and outspoken character, Durocher had a stormy career dogged by clashes with authority, the baseball commissioner, the press, and umpires; his 95 career ejections as a manager trailed only McGraw when he retired, and still ranks fourth on the all-time list.

American - Athlete | July 27, 1905 - October 7, 1991

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

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I come to win.

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God watches over drunks and third baseman.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Nice guys finish last.

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

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

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

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

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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

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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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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

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

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Winning is a habit.

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Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

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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.

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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

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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.

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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.

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What are we out at the park for except to win?

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It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.

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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.

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When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

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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.

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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.

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Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

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Stick a fork in him. He's done.

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