Winning is a habit.

—Leo Durocher

About Leo Durocher

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Leo Ernest Durocher (French spelling Léo Ernest Durocher) (; July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager, and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an infielder. Upon his retirement, he ranked fifth all-time among managers...

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

—Leo Durocher

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

—Leo Durocher

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread.But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought.

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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