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If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Avoid running at all times.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige 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 PaigeSatchel Paige Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.
Satchel PaigeSatchel Paige
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Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
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Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey StengelCasey Stengel I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao ZedongMao Zedong When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
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