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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a support group. Salvation in a can!
Leo Durocher
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Leo Durocher
Age: 86 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 27
Died: 1991
Died: October 7
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Hampden County
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Leo Ernest Durocher
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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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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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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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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.
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God watches over drunks and third baseman.
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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.
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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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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
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Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.
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There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
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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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Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
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Stick a fork in him. He's done.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.
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I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
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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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