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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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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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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
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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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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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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.
Satchel Paige
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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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
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
