More from Satchel Paige

  1. I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
  2. It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.
  3. I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submarine…
  4. It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just ain't so.
  5. I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
  6. Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
  7. I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
  8. 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 wi…

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