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

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
Baseball
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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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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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I was born in August, no July, 1908.
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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 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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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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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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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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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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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Avoid running at all times.
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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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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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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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 may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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