Great Throughts Treasury

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

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

"Never look behind you. Something might be gaining on you."

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don?t mind, it doesn?t matter."

"Ain?t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain?t no man got to be common."

"Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you."

"Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society? the social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. And don't look back? something might be gaining on you."

"Avoid running at all times."

"Don?t look back. Something may be gaining on you."

"Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge."

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

"Don?t pray when it rains if you don?t pray when the sun shines."

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

"Go very lightly on vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain?t restful."

"I ain't as fast as I used to be, but I'm a better pitcher. I used to overpower them; now I out-cute them."

"I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball."

"I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench."

"I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me."

"I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I would toss one that ain?t never been seen by this generation."

"I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do."

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

"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."

"If a man can beat you, walk him."

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

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don?t move."

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

"My pitching philosophy is simple; you gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat."

"My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big."

"Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits."

"Mother always told me, if you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to no one else."

"There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get."

"There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common."

"One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it."

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

"They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever saw... I couldn?t understand why they couldn?t give me no justice."

"When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it."

"You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them."