Top 40 Leroy Satchel Paige Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

2. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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3. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

4. “Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

5. “You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

6. “Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

7. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

8. “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

9. “Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

12. “If a man can beat you, walk him.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

13. “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

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

15. “Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one’s own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man...”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

17. “Avoid running at all times.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

18. “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.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

19. “Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain’t restful. Avoid running at all times. Don’t look back. Something may be gaining on you.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

20. “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.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

21. “If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

22. “Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

23. “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

24. “Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

25. “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 with money.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

26. “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

27. “I never rush myself. See, they can’t start the game without me.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

29. “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.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

30. “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 submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man’s got to do what he’s got to do.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

31. “They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

34. “With women you don’t have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

35. “Don’t go to college, unless to get knowledge.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

36. “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

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

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

— Leroy Satchel Paige

39. “I was born in August, no July, 1908.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

40. “My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

41. “You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

42. “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

43. “I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

44. “It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige

45. “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

46. “One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.”

— Leroy Satchel Paige