Satchel Paige Quotes
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
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.
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 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.
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.
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they're lookin' there; throw it there when they're lookin' here.
