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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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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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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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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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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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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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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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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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
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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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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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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
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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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Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
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Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
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One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.
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I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.