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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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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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Plates
Strikes
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Home
Pitching

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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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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Avoid running at all times.
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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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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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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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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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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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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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I was born in August, no July, 1908.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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 rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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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've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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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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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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