Satchel Paige Quotes

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

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• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Women
  • Game

• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Game
  • Always
  • Win

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Retirement

• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Cricket

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• Down time is not the name of the game.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Game
  • Name

• Class is more important than a game.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Important
  • Game
  • Class

• My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Moment
  • Clock

• On game day, if I eat fruit - I usually eat fruit in the mornings - I have to have three pieces of cantaloupe, three pieces of pineapple. Everything's in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Game
  • Day
  • Fruit

• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Hate

• The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Way
  • Baseball

• I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Responsibility
  • Thought

• We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Game
  • Confidence

• Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mother

• The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Game
  • Passing
  • Integral

• When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Game
  • Violence

• I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova
  • Time
  • Game
  • Single

• What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • May
  • Future
  • Humanity

• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Thinking

• I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Game
  • Rush