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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
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Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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.
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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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.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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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.
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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
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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.
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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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Avoid running at all times.
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I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.
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