Best 31 quotes of Leo Durocher on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

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

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.

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

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

God takes care of drunks and third basemen

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

The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

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.