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Leo Durocher

  • "A buffoon is a drunk on a hitting spree. A drunk is a pitcher who's lost his fast ball. A confirmed drunk is a pitcher with a sore arm. An incurable drunk is a pitcher who hasn't won a game all season."

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

  • "Do you think you could hit half that for me?"

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

  • "He had everything but luck. If he'd been lucky, he'd have been in the Hall of Fame long ago."

  • "He was the best I ever had, with the possible exception of Mays. At that he was even faster than Willie."

  • "How you play the game is for college boys. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. Show me a good loser in professional sports, and I'll show you an idiot."

  • "I don't table-hop, I don't eat with drunken bums and as far as I'm concerned you should be eating out of a trough."

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

  • "I'm not one of those old-timers who says everything was better in my day. I think ballplayers today are better than the players were when I played. But whatever happened to `sit down, shut up and listen'? God forbid you talk to a player that way today. And if players in my day talked to managers the way players today do, well, they were gone in a hurry. In the old days, you never talked to the manager. You heard from the traveling secretary. And if you didn't like it, well, son, you could just go home."

  • "I'm wearing the same socks, shirt and underwear, too!"

  • "If a man knows he's played bad ball and won't admit it, he shouldn't be out there."

  • "If any of my players don't take a drink now and then they'll be gone. You don't play this game on gingersnaps."

  • "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, `Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats me."

  • "If somebody came up and hit .450, stole 100 bases and performed a miracle in the field every day I'd still look you in the eye and say Willie [Mays] was better. He could do the five things you have to do to be a superstar: hit, hit with power, run, throw and field. And he had that other magic ingredient that turns a superstar into a super superstar. He lit up the room when he came in. He was a joy to be around."

  • "In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's Rule #1."

  • "It kills you. You spend your life looking for the great talent that comes along about once a decade, and you have to sit there and see it being thrown away."

  • "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."

  • "Joe Louis, Jascha Heifetz, Sammy Davis, and Nashua rolled into one."

  • "Managing a ball club is the most vulnerable job in the world. From the moment you take the job you're vulnerable. 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. And no matter what you do, you're going to be second-guessed. The manager is the only person in the ball park who has to call it right now. Everybody else can call it after it's over."

  • "Nice guys finish last."

  • "Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop."

  • "People are always telling me that the biggest thrill in my life must have been watching Bobby Thomson's home run go into the bleachers. They are wrong on only two counts (1) I didn't see it. (2) I wasn't thrilled, because I went into complete shock. The mind, I learned that day, can be a very strange and frightening thing."

  • "Pete Reiser had everything but luck."

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

  • "Something went out of baseball when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, and not all the king's horses or all the king's men can ever put it back."

  • "The Cubs are not an eighth-place ball club."

  • "The guy's got a fault? Dandruff, maybe."

  • "The philosophy on the field was totally different than it is today. Baseball was a form of warfare played under a set of rules that were not necessarily drawn up by the league officials and certainly not by the Marquis of Queensberry."

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

  • "There's no question about it, Babe Ruth was the greatest instinctive baseball player who ever lived. He was a great hitter, and he had been a great pitcher. The only thing he couldn't really do was run, but when he went from first to third-or stole a base for you-he invariably made it because he instinctively did the right thing. "All of which proves, in case you have ever wondered, that you don't have to be a mental giant to be a great baseball player. In anything that took any intelligence, like remembering a sign, the Babe was dumb. Which is why Mr. Huggins never bothered to give him a sign. If not being able to remember the names of teammates he had been playing with for years is a sign of dumbness, then the Babe has to be the dumbest man I have ever known."

  • "Van Mungo liked to drink a bit. Anything. Even hair tonic."

  • "We're in first place, they got to worry. We pick up ground when we get rained out. We're in first place, why worry? Let them worry."

  • "When I was managing Brooklyn I'd have to stop at this light each day on the way home. On the corner was a bar, and the guys would always yell, `Hey, Leo, who won?' If I said, `Us,' they'd say great going. If I said, `Them,' they'd call me a dumb sonofabitch."

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

  • "You think I liked it when I had to go to see Mr. Stengel and say, `Congratulations, Casey, you played great'? I'd have liked to stick a knife in his chest and twist it inside him. "I come to play! I come to beat you! I come to kill you! That's the way Miller Huggins, my first manager, brought me up, and that's the way it has always been with me."

  • -Durocher's personal motto, quoted by Roger Kahn in How the Weather Was

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

  • Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

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

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

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

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