Satchel Paige Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

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

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

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

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Baseball, Moving

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

  Satchel Paige

  Motivational, Baseball, Winning

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

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Men, Bats

• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Softball, Baseball

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 10 June 1982

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Philosophy, Simple

• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Hurt, Years

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Ems, World

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Body, Body Temperature

  LeRoy Paige, Satchel Paige (1993). “Maybe I'll Pitch Forever”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Moving, Home

• 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.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Team, Knowing

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Games

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

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Men, Stronger

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

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Baseball, Class

• They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Giving, Justice

• Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Blood, Fried Food

• The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Games, Ballparks

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