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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige
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Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
Baseball Player
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Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Satchell Paige
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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'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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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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They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
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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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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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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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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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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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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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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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Avoid running at all times.
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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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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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