Quote

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.

Satchel Paige

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Satchel Paige
Age: 75 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 7
Died: 1982
Died: June 8
Baseball Player
Mobile
Alabama
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
Satchell Paige
Sports
Certificates
Goats
Twenty
Twenties
Bible
Seven
Lived
Certificate
Birth
Goat

More quotes by Satchel Paige

Image
If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel Paige
Image
I was born in August, no July, 1908.
Satchel Paige
Image
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
Satchel Paige
Image
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
Image
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
Image
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
Satchel Paige
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
Satchel Paige
Image
Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
Satchel Paige
Image
I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
Image
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Satchel Paige
Image
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige