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

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Leo Durocher

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.
Leo Durocher

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

God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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

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

I come to win.
Leo Durocher

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


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

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.
Leo Durocher

Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
Leo Durocher

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Leo Durocher

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

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

What are we out at the park for, except to win?
Leo Durocher

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
Leo Durocher