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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
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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
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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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I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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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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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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Avoid running at all times.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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I was born in August, no July, 1908.
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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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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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 never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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