Satchel Paige Quotes
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If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.
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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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Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
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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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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.
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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.
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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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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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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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.
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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 ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
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Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.
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Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
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It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.