When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.
The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.
If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don’t sound good to you, it won’t sound good to anybody.
Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
My feet ain’t got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller’s got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you.
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.
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
Avoid running at all times.
Don’t go to college, unless to get knowledge.
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn’t know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don’t know where I got the spark to save my life.
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes ’em.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That’s why they say, we don’t stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move...
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.