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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.
Satchel Paige
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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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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 was born in August, no July, 1908.
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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 ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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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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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
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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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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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