The best Quotes by Leo Durocher

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

My dad always told me, "I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner."

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Dream big and anything is possible!

Second is the first of the losers.

Reality is something you rise above.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up!

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

In this world everything is governed by balance. There's what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose. And in this moment they think they have nothing to lose. And when you believe you've got nothing to lose, you're overconfident. We will be the ones that are going to show them just how much they have to lose.

The loser isn't the one who's falling down, it's the one who doesn't stand up.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

But I will not lose, for even in defeat
There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens it up for me

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

A temporary defeat is nothing if it leads to ultimate victory!

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

We always try to correct what we did wrong; you can always learn something when you lose.

The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.