Satchel Paige Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible with my birth certificate. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

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

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.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. The home plate doesn't move.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Throw strikes. The home plate doesn't move.

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

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

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Avoid running at all times.

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

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

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

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