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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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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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High
Lookin
Peas
Chin
Chins
Knees

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Avoid running at all times.
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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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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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I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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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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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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My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
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I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
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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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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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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 used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.
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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
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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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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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