Leo Durocher Baseball Quotations

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

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

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

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

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

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.

Stick a fork in him. He's done.

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

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

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

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.