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Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
Baseball Player
Mobile
Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Satchell Paige
Lying
Pacify
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Cool
Thoughts

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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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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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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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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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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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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