Leo Durocher
Leo Durocher
Leo Ernest Durocher, nicknamed Leo the Lip, was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers with 2,009 career victories, second only to John McGraw in National League history. Durocher still ranks tenth in career wins by a manager. A controversial and outspoken character, Durocher had a stormy career dogged by clashes with authority, umpires, and the press...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 July 1905
CityWest Springfield, MA
There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
What are we out at the park for except to win?
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
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.
I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.