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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
Baseball Player
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Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Satchell Paige
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Avoid running at all times.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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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.
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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.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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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 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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
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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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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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I was born in August, no July, 1908.
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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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