"Take a look at them. All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys -
finish last." - referring the the New York Giants' prospects for the
1946 season.
This is not an eighth-place ballclub. - after being hired as manager
of the Chicago Cubs, who had finished eighth the previous season, and
proceeded to finish last in his first season
"I am not the manager of an eighth-place team." - Durocher upon his
appointment as the Chicago Cubs manager after the 1965 season. In 1966,
the Cubs finished tenth.
When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.
I would have liked to go into the ninth inning with a two-run lead.
I'd take my chances. - when questioned after the Dodgers lost a
three-game playoff to the Giants in 1962
Strike out and keep the inning alive.
Something went out of baseball when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, and neither all the king's horses nor all the king's men can ever put it back again.
By my rules, the manager is the boss, and you respect him and you play like hell for him. If they weren't going by my rules anymore, I didn't have to go by theirs.
The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.