Baseball Quotes...

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

"Go with the best you've got."

“I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball."

"Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries."

"The (New York) Yankees can be had."

"The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you."

""You make it (the ball) livelier, and some little guy will hit a homer in June and for the rest of the season he's swinging for the fences and isn't worth a thing."

Quotes >From Leo Durocher
"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)

"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."

"Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you." Source: Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, 06/09/1975)

"Nice guys finish last."

"Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop." Source: Street and Smith Baseball Yearbook (1976)

"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill." Source: The Sporting News (February 1961)

"There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power." Source: Time (July 16, 1973)

"Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.