Creative Quotations from Leo Durocher (1906-1991)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Leo Durocher
(1906-1991) born on Jul 27

US "baseball player, manager". "He was an infielder, 1928-1941; manager for 24 years; coined the phrase "Nice guys finish last.""

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

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

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

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

"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."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
R:	"In NY "Times," 16 May 65"
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."