Top 30 Leo Durocher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Stick a fork in him. He’s done.”

— Leo Durocher

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2. “Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.”

— Leo Durocher

3. “Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.”

— Leo Durocher

4. “To some it’s a six-pack, to me it’s a “support group”. Salvation in a can!”

— Leo Durocher

5. “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

6. “God watches over drunks and third baseman.”

— Leo Durocher

7. “You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”

— Leo Durocher

8. “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

9. “When you’re in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.”

— Leo Durocher

10. “Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”

— Leo Durocher

11. “As long as I’ve got one chance to beat you I’m going to take it.”

— Leo Durocher

12. “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

13. “I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?”

— Leo Durocher

14. “There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.”

— Leo Durocher

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

— Leo Durocher

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

— Leo Durocher

17. “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.”

— Leo Durocher

18. “Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you’d murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.”

— Leo Durocher

19. “Kid, show me a man who doesn’t go down on his wife and I’ll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight.”

— Leo Durocher

20. “What are we out at the park for except to win?”

— Leo Durocher

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

— Leo Durocher

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

— Leo Durocher

23. “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

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Show me a good sportsman and I’ll show you a player I’m looking to trade.”

— Leo Durocher

27. “It’s possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.”

— Leo Durocher

28. “There is only one way to pitch to Musial – under the plate.”

— Leo Durocher

29. “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

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30. “Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. 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