Satchel Paige Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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.

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 threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If a man can beat you, walk him.

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

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.

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

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

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Avoid running at all times.

Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.