Famous Quotes

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

Satchel Paige on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Satchel Paige

• "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

• "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

• "The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal."

• "If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."

• "It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body."