Leo Durocher Quotes
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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 going to be fired.
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
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How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
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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 third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
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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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Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
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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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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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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.
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Winning is a habit.
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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.
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
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Nice guys finish last.
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
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Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
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What are we out at the park for, except to win?
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I come to win.
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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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You can't get any pictures from way back there.
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God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.