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Leo Durocher Quotes about Baseball

All Leo Durocher Quotes Baseball quotes Running Winning
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Motivational Sports, Funny Sports

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

Leo Durocher
Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball
Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

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

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Inspiration, Rain

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, Downsizing
Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.159, University of Chicago Press

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Games, Umpires

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Player, Show Me
Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Done, Sticks

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Running, Five

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Giving, Diving
Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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
Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.363, University of Chicago Press

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

Leo Durocher
Baseball, Long, Chance
Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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