Satchel Paige Quotes

120 Satchel Paige Quotes (Leroy Robert Paige Quotes)

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Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Satchel Paige

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Satchel Paige

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Satchel Paige

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
Satchel Paige

I ain’t never had a job. I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige

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.
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.
Satchel Paige

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.
Satchel Paige

There ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige



Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
Satchel Paige

[On Josh Gibson] You look for his weakness and while you’re looking for it, he’s liable to hit forty-five home runs.
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.
Satchel Paige

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

My catcher showed up and he must have been Old Man Moses. He was so old he didn’t have to crouch.
Satchel Paige

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
Satchel Paige

Any big league starter who hits .200 shouldn’t be where he is. He ought to be waiting outside the gate to get in the park.
Satchel Paige

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I would toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige

[After issuing a walk to a leadoff hitter and then fanning the next three men] There you is and there you is going to stay.
Satchel Paige

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



[On being inducted into the Hall of Fame] The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal.
Satchel Paige

[On his fear of flying] I was so scared that pilot and me was like husband and wife until we landed.
Satchel Paige

[On James Cool Papa Bell] I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
Satchel Paige

I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige

Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society – the social ramble ain’t restful.
Satchel Paige

With women it’s like this. I’m not married but I’m in great demand.
Satchel Paige

If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel Paige

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em
Satchel Paige

The reason I catch so many fish is because I feed them just what they like… grits, eggs, pork chops and chitterlings.
Satchel Paige

I don’t need any spit to help out.
Satchel Paige



[On his years in reform school] It got me away from the bums. It gave me a chance to polish up my baseball game. It gave me some schooling I’d of never taken if I wasn’t made to go to class.
Satchel Paige

I don’t care what name they do give it long as the batter don’t stepin Hitit.
Satchel Paige

I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.
Satchel Paige

I generally don’t like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige

When the green’s floating around, make sure you get your share.
Satchel Paige

You ain’t seen no speed yet. Just wait until the weather warms up.
Satchel Paige

[To Josh Gibson] You know, Josh, we’re on the same team… you may never have a chance to hit against me or me pitch against you. But one of these days, we gonna be on different ball clubs and we gonna see what you can do against me and I against you.
Satchel Paige

I wanna pitch to Josh with the bases jammed. I got something to prove.
Satchel Paige

I’m gonna throw you some fastballs. Nothing but fastballs. I’m not gonna trick you. I gonna throw you some fastballs right at your knees.
Satchel Paige

I’m not gonna knock you down now. I not gonna throw this smoke at your yoke, but a pea at your knee.
Satchel Paige



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