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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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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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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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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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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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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 never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
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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.
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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 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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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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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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