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.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Leroy Satchel Paige Quotes

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don’t sound good to you, it won’t sound good to anybody.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Avoid running at all times.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Don’t go to college, unless to get knowledge.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes ’em.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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.

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move...

— Leroy Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

— Leroy Satchel Paige
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