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Satchel Paige

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


— Satchel Paige


#youth #age

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


— Satchel Paige


#kill #likely #may #you

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


— Satchel Paige


#inspirational

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


— Satchel Paige


#dance #hurt #like #love #money

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


— Satchel Paige


#avoid #being #born #common #got

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


#characteristics #cheered #excellent #excellent man #grieved

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


— Satchel Paige


#pray #rains #shines #sun #sun shines

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


#else #money #same #strongest #things

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


— Satchel Paige


#disputes #down #lie #stomach #thoughts

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


— Satchel Paige


#case #matter #mind #over #you






About Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige Quotes




Did you know about Satchel Paige?

Wilkinson of the Monarchs. Paige told one version in which the mayor of a small hamlet asked him in Spanish if he had intentionally lost a particular game. Paige took the mound when the Crawfords opened the season on April 30 in their newly built stadium Greenlee Field the first completely black-owned stadium in the country.

He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971 the first player to be inducted based upon his play in the Negro leagues. On town tours across America Paige would have his infielders sit down behind him and then routinely strike out the side. As a member of the Cleveland Indians Paige became the oldest rookie in Major league Baseball and attracted record crowds wherever he pitched.

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