Episode 0601 - Mark Armour

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Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.

2.

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

3.

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

Four, go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society.

The social ramble ain't restful.

Five, avoid running at all times.

And six, which has become the most famous one, don't look back.

Something might be gaining on you.

But Satchel has been quoted over and over again for the past hundred years.

He's one of baseball's great philosophers.

Some of his other famous quotes that you may have heard over the years, age is a question of mind over matter.

If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Or along those same lines, how old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? When Yogi Berra was famously quoted as saying, I never said most of the things I said, I think this next quote from Satchel Paige might have been one of those things he was talking about that had been misattributed to him.

It was really Satchel Paige who said, Sometimes I sit and think, and other times I just sit.

And one of my personal favorite quotes from Satchel, which really shows how confident he was in his ability and how secure he was with his place in the baseball world, is this last one I'll share with you here.

I never rush myself.

See, they can't start the game without me.