Satchel Paige Quotes

We don't have an off-season. Every other sport has an off-season. It just goes to show how tough we are.

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I'd love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

At 19, I was still figuring out how to throw a fastball.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

I threw a lot of fastballs in college.

Sure, I get tired. But it's a long season, and you've got to play no matter if you have a little injury. I'm that kind of player.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.

I've worked with Tom House and Adam Dedeaux, and both of those guys helped me out just pure mechanically.

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

I have found that CrossFit has made me more fit than I have ever been.