Leo Durocher Quotes

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• Nice guys finish last.
• I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
• To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
• There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
• 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…
• Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
• Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
• What are we out at the park for except to win?
• Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
• 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 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…
• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
• God watches over drunks and third baseman.
• Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
• 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…
• 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 don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
• Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
• 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.…

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