Bob Feller Quotes

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I just reared back and let them go.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.