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Satchel Paige
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Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
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Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
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My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Satchel Paige
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
Satchel Paige
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
Satchel Paige
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
Satchel Paige
I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
Satchel Paige
I was born in August, no July, 1908.
Satchel Paige
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige
Avoid running at all times.
Satchel Paige
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
Satchel Paige
Throw high risers at the chin throw peas at the knees throw it here when they're lookin' there throw it there when they're lookin' here.
Satchel Paige
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel Paige
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Satchel Paige
