Satchel Paige Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.