Satchel Paige Quotations | Page 2

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

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.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

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

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.

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

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

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

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.