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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.

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Leo Durocher
Age: 86 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 27
Died: 1991
Died: October 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Writer
Hampden County
Massachusetts
Leo Ernest Durocher
Mother
Thirds
Never
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Journey
Playing
Nice
Rounded
Winning
Trip
Guy
Base
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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.
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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.
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Stick a fork in him. He's done.
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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.
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
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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.
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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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