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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.
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
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Thoroughly
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More quotes by Satchel Paige
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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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I was born in August, no July, 1908.
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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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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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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Avoid running at all times.
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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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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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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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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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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 your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
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.
Satchel Paige
