Bob Feller Quotes

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

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Baseball

• 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

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  Tags in Home, Heroes

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

  Bob Feller

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  Tags in Beat, Regular

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Intelligent

• 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

  Topics in Opportunity

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

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trouble, Baseball

• 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

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  Tags in Feels, Pick

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

  Bob Feller

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  Tags in Greatest

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

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Sympathy

• 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

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  Tags in Today

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

  Bob Feller

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  Tags in Heaven

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

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Honesty, Life

• 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

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  Tags in Busy, Dawn

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Baseball

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Heroes

• 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

  Topics in Country, Leadership

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Join

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Life

Bob Feller (19)

Birth:	3rd November, 1918
Death:	15th December, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Bob Feller was born in Van Meter, Iowa. He was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted only by a four-year sojourn in the Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average.

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