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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

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks

I had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end to the segregation laws in the South. I only knew that I was tired of being pushed around.
Rosa Parks



People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks

I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Well, I’m going to have you arrested.’ Then I said, ‘You may do that.’ These were the only words we said to each other.
Rosa Parks

In fact if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus. But I chose to remain.
Rosa Parks

I knew I was sitting in the right seat.
Rosa Parks

It was time for someone to stand up – or in my case, sit down. I refused to move.
Rosa Parks

I did not want to be continually humiliated over something I had no control over. The color of my skin.
Rosa Parks

Some people have me believe, when they talk with me, that I have influenced their lives in many ways.
Rosa Parks

The more we gave in and complied, the worse they treated us.
Rosa Parks

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday reflects values and ideas that benefit all of us – not only black people.
Rosa Parks

Because my mother and her sister could get both our tonsils removed for the price of one, they went ahead and had us both operated on.
Rosa Parks



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