Bob Feller Quotes

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, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller

Life, Success, Game

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

Sometimes, Heaven, Ball

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

Baseball, Either, Owe

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

Life, Important, Honesty

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller

Game, Rather, Hit

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
Bob Feller

Good, Experience, Game

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.
Bob Feller

Time, Father, Parents

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

Life, Blessed, Lives

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

Greatest, Around, Player

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.
Bob Feller

Hero, Soldiers, Name

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.
Bob Feller

Time, War, Sports

I needed to join the Navy. 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.
Bob Feller

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.
Bob Feller

Home, Hero, Anyone

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.
Bob Feller

Mind, Father, Doubt

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Bob Feller

Baseball, Hair, Trouble

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

Sympathy, Yankees, Apparently

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.
Bob Feller

Today, Simple, Between

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.
Bob Feller

Leadership, Time, Great

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.
Bob Feller

Good, Nice, Small

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Born: November 3, 1918

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