Satchel Paige Quotes

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

Satchel Paige

Funny, Sports, Baseball

"How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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

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Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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

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Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

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

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Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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

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Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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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

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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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Running, Lying, Moving

1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.

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

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Knowledge, People, Scary

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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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Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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

Satchel Paige

Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

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Thinking, Sometimes

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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.

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Sports, Twenties, Goats

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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.

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Sports, Cheer, Men

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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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Lying, Sound, Telling Lies

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

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Curves, Daddy, Might

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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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Sports, Baseball, Moving

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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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Cells, Years, Two

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

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Winning, Sometimes, Loses

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

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Baseball, Philosophy, Simple

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

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Sports, Baseball, Jobs

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

Satchel Paige

Baseball, Games

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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.

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Past, Papa, Balls

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

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Sports, Pride, Coaching

LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.278, U of Nebraska Press

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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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Women

LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.64, U of Nebraska Press

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Born: July 7, 1906
Died: June 8, 1982
Occupation: Baseball player
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