Satchel Paige Quotes

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

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.

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.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

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.

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move ...

Won-lost was only 1-1 on the tour, but they batted only

Avoid running at all times.

Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

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.

Age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

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.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Sometimes i sits and thinks and sometimes i just sits

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.

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

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

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.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.