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Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where they'll get it from me.

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

Is you Mr. Martin? They tell me you kin hit! Then hit this!

From the pitchers mound the first time he faced Pepper Martin, as he was about to strike him out on three fastballs

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

I went from a second-class citizen to a second-class immortal.

On playing and starring in the Negro Leagues with commentary on his relative success therewith

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

Satchel -- Satchel Paige!!... Now, THAT mother-(bleep) could PITCH!

With eyes lit up and a big smile, answering an interviewer's question about what it was like to catch for his old batterymate

In 2005 around his 103rd birthday

Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Radcliffe
Kansas City Monarchs
Catcher
a.k.a. “Double Duty”

Shed no tears for Buck. I couldn't attend Sarasota High School. That hurt. I couldn't attend the University of Florida. That hurt. But not going into the Hall of Fame, that ain't going to hurt me that much, no. Before, I wouldn't even have a chance. But this time I had that chance. Just keep loving old Buck.

The 94-year-old addressing a group that had assembled for what was scheduled to be a celebration of O'Neil's election into baseball's Hall of Fame in February, 2006 (he fell one vote short of election)

John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
1B

Who's gonna straighten out 2500 ball games in my head? How many cow pastures you played on, Satchel? they wanna know. How many bus rides you took? Who put the spike scars on your shinbone? Why is your feet flat? Who was it offered you $50 to pitch a triple-header that time? Man, the past is a long and twisty road.

As he was finishing up his major league career, said about all the questioning that came his way

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

You look for his weakness and while your lookin’ for it, he’s liable to hit 45 home runs.

On slugger Josh Gibson

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

My thoughtful stuff.

What he called his fastball -- it did give hitters plenty to think about

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Kansas City Monarchs
Pitcher
HOF 1971

People say it's a shame he never pitched against the best. But who's to say he didn't?

On Satchel Paige

John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
1B

I got a chance to see Rube Foster manage from the dugout. And Rube Foster had a pipe. And he was giving signals with smoke rings and things like that. This fascinated me. The way he was running the show. He did it all. He was born to be baseball, Rube was. He had an excellent mind and was more or less two innings ahead of everybody else. He devised a system that had never been seen in baseball before. Rube picked all the men to play. He put on all of the plays and he had the type of men that could do just what he wanted them to do. And it was a case of...can you imagine, a ball club with eight or nine Rickey Hendersons? This was the Chicago American Giants in 1911, 1912. Everybody could go to first base in under four seconds, and Rube would score runs without a base hit. If you walked the lead off man, he'd bunt the ball, bunt and run, hit and run, steal home base. It changed the way a pitcher had to pitch.

John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil
Kansas City Monarchs
1B

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