- Stick it in his ear!
- "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.
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