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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.

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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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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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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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 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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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 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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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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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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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