Satchel Paige Quotes

• 1. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.

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

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

  4. Go very light on vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful.

  5. Avoid running at all times.

  6. Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.

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

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• Avoid running at all times.

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

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

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

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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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• If a man can beat you, walk him.

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

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• I was born in August, no July, 1908.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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Birth:	7th July, 1906
Death:	8th June, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

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