Satchel Paige Quotes

I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: 'We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.'

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

When we win, I'm excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. But I also know that it's never as good as it seems; it's never as bad as seems. You always have to stay focused because you never know, for me. My role, it could expand. So you just got to always be ready.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

If we have a good day and we win, I'll celebrate and enjoy it. If I have a bad day and I lose, I'll be disappointed and then come back the next day and think about the next team.

It's tough when you don't know if you're going to play or when you're going to play. But keeping the consistency and keeping in shape is important.

Sometimes things don't happen in the way you want it to. But that's sport.

In sport, you just have to take what you can get.

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

You win some and lose some. It's all part of the game. You have to take it in a very positive way.

You've got to go with the flow. Whatever happens, you've just got to be ready for it.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

I love football and I love winning, and when things aren't going right I get annoyed.

Obviously I would have loved to have won, but I have had a good run every match.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

You need to be ready to bat, whatever you are given; you have to take what is thrown at you.