Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball pitcher who is notable for his longevity in the game, and for attracting record crowds wherever he pitched. Profoundly inspirational Satchel Paige quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Famous Satchel Paige Quotes
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Satchel Paige
I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Satchel Paige
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife
Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful. Avoid running at all times. Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you
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. Satchel Paige
Avoid running at all times
Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit. Satchel Paige
You win a few; you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them
If you want to live a long time, don’t fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bankroll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you’re in trouble. Cause when you’re getting old and your cells gettin’ low, you’ll need a Delco battery to boost ya. Satchel Paige
They want me to be old, so I give ‘em what they want. Seems they get a bigger kick out of an old man throwing strikeouts.
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don’t sound good to you, it won’t sound good to anybody. Satchel Paige
Don’t go to college unless you want to get knowledge
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
Avoid fried foods, which anger the blood
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
I sure get laughs when I see in the papers where some major league pitcher says he gets a sore arm because he’s overworked, and he pitches every four days. Man, that’d be a vacation for me
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out. Satchel Paige
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
With women you don’t have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there. Satchel Paige
You look for his weakness, and while you’re looking for it, he’s liable to hit forty five home runs
I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball. Satchel Paige
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a hundred times, I’m forty four years old. Satchel Paige
I ain’t as fast as I used to be, but I’m a better pitcher. I used to overpower them; now I out cute them
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
Go very lightly on vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful
When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what. Satchel Paige
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that’s where you’re going to get it from me. I have been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can’t hurt you. You keep the ball in the park. Satchel Paige
Won lost was only 1-1 on the tour, but they batted only
I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. 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
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Satchel Paige
I was born in August, not July 1908.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. Satchel Paige
Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit.
Throw high risers at the chin; throw peas at the knees; throw it here when they’re lookin’ there; throw it there when they’re lookin’ here. Satchel Paige
I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench
One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it. Satchel Paige
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game. Satchel Paige
I ain’t ever had a job; I just always played baseball
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. Satchel Paige
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out cutes ’em Satchel Paige
