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Quotes from Leo Durocher

What are we out at the park for, except to win?
~ Leo Durocher
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
~ Leo Durocher
You can't get any pictures from way back there.
~ Leo Durocher
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
~ Leo Durocher
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
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~ Leo Durocher
God watches over drunks and third baseman.
~ Leo Durocher
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
~ Leo Durocher
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
~ Leo Durocher
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
~ Leo Durocher
Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
~ Leo Durocher
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
When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
~ Leo Durocher
I come to win.
~ Leo Durocher
Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
~ Leo Durocher
Winning is a habit.
~ Leo Durocher
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
~ Leo Durocher
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
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
~ Leo Durocher
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
~ Leo Durocher
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
If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.
~ Leo Durocher
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
~ Leo Durocher
You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
~ Leo Durocher