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I was born in August, no July, 1908.

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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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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Avoid running at all times.
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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 ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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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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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 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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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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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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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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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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