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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

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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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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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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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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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Avoid running at all times.
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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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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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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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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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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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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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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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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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