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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.
Satchel Paige
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Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
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Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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Avoid running at all times.
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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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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
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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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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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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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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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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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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