Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
Baseball Player
Mobile
Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Satchell Paige
Giving
Hang
Way
Athlete
Never
Head
Sports
Inspirational
Grieve
Another
Grieving
Give
Encouraging
Find
Cheer
More quotes by Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
Avoid running at all times.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
Satchel Paige
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
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
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
Satchel Paige
I was born in August, no July, 1908.
Satchel Paige
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
Satchel Paige
If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel Paige
