Satchel Paige Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.