Satchel Paige famous quotes

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-- Satchel Paige

#Birthday #Baseball #Fun

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
-- Satchel Paige

#Giving Up #Athlete #Grieving

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

#Funny #Sports #Baseball

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
-- Satchel Paige

#Thank You #Thanksgiving #Baseball

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

#Sports #Baseball #Jobs

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Running #Lying #Moving

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Funny #Softball #Baseball

I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.
-- Satchel Paige

#Men #Steps #Bats

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

#Motivational #Baseball #Winning

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...
-- Satchel Paige

#Cheer #Men #Blame

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

#Motivational #Sports #People

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

#Baseball #Philosophy #Simple

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

#Lying #Down And #Disputes

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

#Sports #Baseball #Moving

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Funny #Witty #Money

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

#Knowledge #People #Scary

Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
-- Satchel Paige

#Harder

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Sparks #Used #Feels

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

#Baseball #World #May

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

#Lying #Sound

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

#Body

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Team #Knowing #Firsts

Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
-- Satchel Paige

#Thinking #Sometimes

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

#Women

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

#Sports #Pride #Care

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Sports #Moving #Swings

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
-- Satchel Paige

#Bats #Balls #Fats

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

#Baseball #Games

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
-- Satchel Paige

#Blood #Fried Food #Angry

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Sports #Feet #Nicknames

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

#Men #Average #Born

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

#Sports #Running #Believe

Avoid running at all times.
-- Satchel Paige

#Running #All Time

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.
-- Satchel Paige

#College

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
-- Satchel Paige

#Moving #Home #Strikes

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

#Funny #Sports #Witty

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Baseball #Ocean #Simple

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

#Baseball #Games #Ballparks

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
-- Satchel Paige

#Baseball #Hurt #Years

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

#Change #Baseball #Class

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
-- Satchel Paige

#August #July #Born

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

#Men #Stronger #Earth

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

#Justice #Giving #Said

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

#Blood #Fried Food

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

#Years #Four #Said

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ***** sliding into second.
-- Satchel Paige

#Past #Ears #Bells

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

#Moving #Juice

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.
-- Satchel Paige

#Cells #Years #Two

If a man can beat you, walk him.
-- Satchel Paige

#Reality #Men #Beats