Leo Durocher Quotes

A lot of guys are going to say, 'Look, if it meant me getting a Super Bowl ring, I'd run right over the top of my brother.' And I would have. But once it was said and done, I would have been very disappointed that I had to get the ring at my brother's expense.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

Race drivers are fiercely competitive animals, and there is often a conflict between what is right for the team and what is right for the individual.

Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Being nice and competitive are two different things.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

When I play ball, I play hardball.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I'm against the fighting. But sometimes when you're trying to help your team, trying to win the games, there are moments when you need to get a little aggressive.

I'm competitive, man. Competitive.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

Players build up friendships with each other, so when a team-mate wants out, part of you understands that he is torn and you know you can't begrudge him a move. But the other part of you wants him to stay because you want to win games.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

There is no such thing as friends on the field.

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy.

We need to show we could be in a fight, a battle, and win it. If that means we have to be willing to do something that takes a yellow card, then we have to be ready to do that for each other and I'm happy to do that.

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.