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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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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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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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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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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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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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