Work like you don't need the money...

[fajrdrako]

Today's 'quote of the day' list had two quotes I knew well, and loved, but I never knew who said them:

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

and

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

Turns out both are from Leroy "Satchel" Paige, 1906 - 1982, an American baseball player.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I saw someone attributing that first one to Mark twain the other day, but I was fairly sure that was wrong.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There are some quotes that become well-known, without the name of their originator being attached. These are always fun to track down - and sometimes that's impossible to do. Sometimes it's a sort of legendary things. So many quotes from that master of quotations, Anon.

I suppose if you're going to guess at who said a good line, Mark Twain is a likely bet, along with Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, and Groucho Marx.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I love the latter; I've had it in my collection for several decades.

Satchel Paige was one of the great people on this planet. In my opinion.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I can't argue with that - he sounds terrific.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Such a talent, and such a great attitude. He didn't pitch in "the majors" until well into his forties, but even then he made his mark. Before that, in the Negro Leagues, he had upwards of a hundred no-hitters.

There was a very good Negro League team near Pittsburgh -- the Homestead Grays. The town of Homestead lies across the Monongahela River from, uh, Duquesne (I think). It is also known for the HOmestead STrike, in which mill workers got shot. Massively important for labor history.

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