Leo Durocher Quotes
Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
Durocher, Leo, and Ed Linn. Nice Guys Finish Last. Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
President’s did not have then the kinds of staff resources that they would get later. Roosevelt had friends and professional relationships with journalists, military men, business men and others whom he used for staff work and advice. Franklin Delano Roosevelt also used this technique extensively.
Leo Ernest Durocher (French spelling Léo Ernest Durocher), 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 2,008 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, the press, and umpires; his 95 career ejections as a manager trailed only McGraw when he retired, and still ranks fourth on the all-time list.