Leo Durocher Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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)

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

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Inspiration, Rain

• 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

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

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Running, Five

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

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Games, Umpires

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Stick a fork in him. He's done.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Done, Sticks

• 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

• 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

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