Satchel Paige Quotes about Baseball

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

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

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

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.