Top quotes by Leo Durocher

How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. Votes: 18

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. Votes: 13

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. Votes: 11

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. Votes: 11

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can! Votes: 11

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. Votes: 10

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. Votes: 10

Nice guys finish last. Votes: 10

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. Votes: 9

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton. Votes: 9

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. Votes: 9

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last. Votes: 8

You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. Votes: 7

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. Votes: 7

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. Votes: 7

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? Votes: 6

As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. Votes: 6

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. Votes: 6

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it. Votes: 5

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. Votes: 4

Winning is a habit. Votes: 4

God watches over drunks and third baseman. Votes: 3

You can't get any pictures from way back there. Votes: 2

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'. Votes: 2

I come to win. Votes: 2

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. Votes: 0

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse. Votes: 0

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. Votes: 0

Stick a fork in him. He's done. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What are we out at the park for except to win? Votes: 0

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade. Votes: 0