Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paigewas an American Negro league baseball and Major League Baseballpitcher who became a legend in his own lifetime by attracting record crowds wherever he pitched...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 July 1906
CityMobile, AL
CountryUnited States of America
baseball inspirational-sports motivational-sports
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
sports pride care
When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.
love inspirational life
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
baseball games ballparks
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
sports goats twenties
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.
bats balls fats
You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
baseball games
I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
body body-temperature
It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.
august july born
I was born in August, no July, 1908.
harder
Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
baseball hurt years
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.
justice giving said
They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
curves daddy might
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
years four said
I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.