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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
August
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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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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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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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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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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 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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Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
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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 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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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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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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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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