Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (1906–82) was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball pitcher who is notable for being perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history, for his longevity in the game, and for attracting record crowds wherever he pitched.
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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don’t sound good to you, it won’t sound good to anybody.
—Satchel Paige
Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Competition, Past, Reflection, Moving on, Baseball
Avoid fresh 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 in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful. Don’t look back. Someone might be gaining on you.
—Satchel Paige
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Old Age, Age
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.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Money
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Age, Aging
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Prayer
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Baseball
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.
—Satchel Paige
Money and women. They’re the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Motivation
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Baseball
What’s scary in life is not what people know (or don’t know), but what they know that ain’t so.
—Satchel Paige
Topics: Knowledge
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