Leo Durocher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Baseball #Motivational Sports #Church
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
-- Leo Durocher

#Humorous #Believe #Break
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
-- Leo Durocher

#Motivational #Integrity #Sight
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Inspiration #Rain
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Giving #Diving
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

#Mother #Running #Travel
God watches over drunks and third baseman.
-- Leo Durocher

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

#Baseball #Running
Stick a fork in him. He's done.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Done #Sticks
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
-- Leo Durocher

#Teamwork #Nice #Winning
There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
-- Leo Durocher

#Way #Plates
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

#Winning #Uniforms #Murder
What are we out at the park for except to win?
-- Leo Durocher

#Winning #Parks
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

#Baseball #Winning
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
-- Leo Durocher

#Men #Branches #Infinite
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

#Fall #Luck #Would Be
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
-- Leo Durocher

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

#Baseball #Two #Games
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
-- Leo Durocher

#Beer #Support #Six Packs
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

#Player #Games #Fields
Nice guys finish last.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Nice #Guy
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

#Baseball #Running #Kill Me
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

#Reading #Umpires #Mind
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Long #Chance
Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
-- Leo Durocher

#Baseball #Player #Show Me
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

#Baseball #Mother #Sorry

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