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Leo Durocher Biography

Leo Ernest Durocher (/dəˈroʊ.ʃər/; July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed Leo the Lip and Lippy, was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. 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, the baseball commissioner, umpires (his 95 career ejections as a manager trailed only McGraw when he retired, and still rank fourth on the all-time list), and the press.

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Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth.

Diz, Fall, Gumdrop, Luck, Room, Would Be

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

Baseman, Drunk, Drunks, God, Thirds, Watches

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

Baseball, Come, Diving, Giving, Kill

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.

Mother, Running, Said, Travel, Trip, Winning

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Baseball, Five, Run, Running, Throw

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Baseball, Player, Show, Show Me, Sportsman

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Long, Motivational, Nice, Sports, Teamwork, Win

In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.

Become, League, Numbers, Order, Place, Time

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

Matter, Sports, Thing, Winning

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.

Baseball, Day, Downsizing, Fired, Win, Winning

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

Believe, Break, Humorous, Rules

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

Baseball, Inspiration, Pitcher, Rain, Tomorrow

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

Baseball, Inspirational, Integrity, Motivational, Questioned, Umpire

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.

Breed, Let, Murder, Tried, Uniforms, Winning

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.

Mind, Pitcher, Reading, Told, Umpires

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

Bad, Branches, Infinite, Men, Said

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

One Way, Plate, Plates, Under, Way

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Baseball, Beat, Chance, Long, Take

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.

Debt, Mind, Money, Proved, Running, World

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Baseball, Game, Games, Things, Umpires

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