Top 79 Satchel Quotes
#1. His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel.
Cormac McCarthy
#2. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. I quickly remember that I had put a condom in my satchel because I figured that pretending to be a ripped, violent warrior might just be walking lady porn.
Karina Halle
#4. The only place they registered at all was on a small black device called a Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic which winked away quietly to itself. It nestled in the darkness inside a leather satchel which Ford Prefect habitually wore slung around his neck.
Douglas Adams
#5. Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song
Marie Lu
#6. What is meant by 'nut bag'? Is that a testicular reference or merely the identification of a satchel of cashews or pecans?
Jessica Park
#7. I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
Nick Jonas
#8. Depending on how he gripped the ball and how hard he threw it, Satchel Paige had pitches that included the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin' ball.
Buck O'Neil
#9. I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
Kelly Ripa
#10. If you served the King,' said Damen, 'how is it you now find yourself in the Prince's household, and not his uncle's?' 'Men find themselves in the places they put themselves,' Paschal said, closing his satchel with a snap.
C.S. Pacat
#11. I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
Ogden Nash
#12. How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers
Matsuo Basho
#13. There are good times in everybody's satchel, nor do we all get a free pass. That would be a split decision, as they call it. How else is the planned brotherhood to float forward?
John Ashbery
#14. It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
Alan Garner
#15. Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#16. Pangborn took the satchel by the straps. "What is it?" "A bomb." The mechanic's eyes widened. "Thanks?
Larry Correia
#17. After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio
#18. John trotted up, carrying his satchel. "Yes. Wexler's gone. We need your car."
"What? Why?"
John circled around to the passenger-side door and said, "Car chase.
David Wong
#19. It was just a book. An inanimate object. The only power it held was what she chose to give it. It could only be important in her life if she made it such.
Of course, that didn't explain why she half expected it to glow in the dark every time she peered into her satchel.
Julia Quinn
#20. Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.
Monte Irvin
#21. I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.
Dizzy Dean
#22. That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.
Josh Mathews
#23. Callistanas aren't so bad either," I said, looking down at my satchel. "That 'pain in the ass' screeching saved me from a face full of acid."
Adrian put his hand to his heart in mock horror. "Sage, did you just swear?
Richelle Mead
#24. Baseball," he said. "Babe Ruth." Dixie Clay saw now that the boy wore a satchel honeycombed with rolled newspapers. The world was still going on, was it.
Tom Franklin
#25. Flustered by the budding understanding of why her sister might have chosen to love this supposed monster, Irsa fumbled for her satchel.
Renee Ahdieh
#26. It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.
Satchel Paige
#27. With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.
Satchel Paige
#29. If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.
Satchel Paige
#31. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move ...
Satchel Paige
#32. Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Satchel Paige
#33. I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige
#34. Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.
Satchel Paige
#35. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Satchel Paige
#36. The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige
#37. I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
Satchel Paige
#38. Sometimes i sits and thinks and sometimes i just sits
Satchel Paige
#39. 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.
Satchel Paige
#40. The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
Satchel Paige
#41. Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige
#43. 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.
Satchel Paige
#44. When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.
Satchel Paige
#45. Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige
#46. 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.
Satchel Paige
#47. Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
#48. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.
Satchel Paige
#49. They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
Satchel Paige
#50. Age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
Satchel Paige
#51. Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.
Satchel Paige
#52. Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.
Satchel Paige
#53. 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.
Satchel Paige
#55. You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
Satchel Paige
#56. One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
Satchel Paige
#57. I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
Satchel Paige
#58. 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
#59. NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
Satchel Paige
#60. My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Satchel Paige
#61. I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
Satchel Paige
#62. 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.
Satchel Paige
#63. 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.
Satchel Paige
#64. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
#65. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
#66. You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige
#67. Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.
Satchel Paige
#68. Smokey Joe (Williams) could throw harder than anyone.
Satchel Paige
#69. 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.
Satchel Paige
#70. 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.
Satchel Paige
#72. Won-lost was only 1-1 on the tour, but they batted only
Satchel Paige
#73. I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
#74. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?
Satchel Paige
#75. 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.
Satchel Paige
#77. I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige
#78. What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
Satchel Paige
#79. There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
Satchel Paige
