Satchel Paige Quotes

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

Pitching is a priority.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Striking out batters was easy.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.