If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
SATCHEL PAIGEAin’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
More Satchel Paige Quotes
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You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
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Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world.
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Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
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My feet ain’t got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller’s got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
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The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.
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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
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Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.
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I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
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I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
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The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
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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.
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If a man can beat you, walk him.
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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
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Avoid running at all times.
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Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
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