Satchel Paige on motivation and goals

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

I don’t know how old I am because the goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’

Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23