"Some guys are admired for coming to play,……" — Leo Durocher
"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill."
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32 Quotes by Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher has 32 quotes on this site.
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Nice guys finish last.
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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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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
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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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There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
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Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would…
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Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad…
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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What are we out at the park for except to win?
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
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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…
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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…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats…
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers…
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