70 Quotes by Leo Durocher

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

The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

God takes care of drunks and third basemen

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.

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.