Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Satchel Paige
Satchel 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 Paige
Satchel Paige

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige

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