Quotes by Leo Durocher - Page 1

I come to win.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Come
Win
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Winning is a habit.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Habit
Winning
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Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Nice
Finish
Finish Last
Guys
Last
Nice Guys
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Stick a fork in him. He's done.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Done
Sticks
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God watches over drunks and third baseman.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Drunk
Thirds
Watches
Baseman
Drunks
Third
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Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Balls
Fall
Pool Table
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What are we out at the park for except to win?
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Parks
Winning
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You can't get any pictures from way back there.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Pictures
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What are we out at the park for, except to win?
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Except
Park
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Idiot
Loser
Good Me Loser
Show
Good Loser
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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Nobody
Star
Won
Pennant
Shortstop
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Church
Funny Sports
Motivational Sports
Like
Understand
Attend
Few
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It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.
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Guy
Lasts
Nice
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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
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One Way
Plates
Way
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Inspiration
May
Pitcher
Rain
Tomorrow
Save
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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Beat
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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Chance
Baseball
Long
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Inspirational
Motivational
Baseball
Eyesight
Integrity
Questioned
Umpire
Yes
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Motivational
Sports
Teamwork
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Diving
Give Me
Giving
Hungry
Scratching
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Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Player
Show Me
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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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Beer
Drinking
Support
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When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Sports
Matter
Winning
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Argue
Umpire
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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Funny
Believe
Break
Humorous
Rules
Sure
Were
Could
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Effort
Games
Umpires
Rules
Argue
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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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Guy
Play
Admired
Prefer
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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Running
Baseball
Five
Catch
Throw
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Running
Baseball
Kill Me
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Downsizing
Winning
Fired
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Winning
Ball
Matters
The Only Thing
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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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Beats
Guy
Play
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Men
Branches
Infinite
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
League
Numbers
Order
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Courses
Mind
Pitcher
Reading
Umpires
Olden
Throw
Umpire
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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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Clubs
Games
Player
Steak
Beat
Club
Field
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Genius
Insanity
Lines
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Running
Debt
Mind
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Baseball
Mother
Sorry
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Running
Travel
Mother
Nice
Nice Guy
Winning
Base
Rounded
Third
Trip
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Murder
Uniforms
Winning
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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.
Leo Durocher / Baseball Manager
Fall
Luck
Would Be
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