Satchel Paige

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

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

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

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.