Quotes by Bob Feller - Page 1

I just reared back and let them go.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.
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Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Blessed
Blessed Life
Forever
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Yankees
Beat
Pitch
Regularly
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Equipment
Hair
Packing
Trouble
Nowadays
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Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Honesty
Important
Down
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I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Country
Needs
Should
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Baseball
Fun
League
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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sports
Balls
Clean
Heaven
Ball
Clean Up
Stands
Threw
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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sympathy
Pitching
Yankees
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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Anger
Sympathy
Yankees
Apparently
Bestowed
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Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sports
Player
Saws
Hitter
Ted
Williams
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Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Morning
Roosters
Trying
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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Thinking
People Anything Think
Colored
Owe
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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 / Baseball Player
Home
Hero
Return
Thinking
Come
Heroes
Anyone
Back
Return Home
Survivors
Thinks
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
War
Baseball
Inches
Insignificant
Lot
All-Out
Game
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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.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Current Events
Events
Reading
Staying
Trying
Touch
Good World Keep
Current
Good Human
Human Being
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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 / Baseball Player
Allies
Saved
World War Ii
War World People
They Say
World War
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Doubt
Father
Someday
Talent
Thinking
Loved
Cultivated
Professional
Professional Baseball
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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.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Country
Europe
Old Buildings
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Cases
Differences
Pitching
Relief
Simple
Necessarily
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Believe
Intelligent
Catcher
Considerable
Entirely
Good Thing
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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Men
Alabama
Baseball
Pacific
Teamwork
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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 / Baseball Player
War
Allies
Europe
Navy
Needed
People
Saved
States
World War Ii
War World People
Won
Join
They Say
World War
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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 / Baseball Player
Dice
Hero
Names
Soldier
Survivor
Heroes
Back
Name
Bullet
Roll
Hear
Soldiers
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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Home
Alabama
Gun
Hero
Heroes
Captain
Survivors
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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 / Baseball Player
Leadership
Home
War
Cities
Country
Factories
Farms
Resolve
Unrelenting
World War Ii
Time War Home
World War
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Feels
Good Day
Heavy
Liable
Nice
Ball
Pick
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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.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
August
Military
Team
Tigers
Good Shape
Indians
Shape
Stayed
Teams
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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
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Alabama
Class
Gun
Norway
Russia
Captain
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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 / Baseball Player
Life
Opportunity
Sports
Baseball
Games
Way
Yesterday
Life Success Sports
Build
Again
Game
Behind
You
New
Every
Day
Every Day
Failures
Over
Put
New Game
Start
Way Life
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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.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Baseball
Player
Team
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You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Golf
Heart
Player
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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 / Baseball Player
Kids
Running
Baseball
Busy
Corn
Country
Dawn
Dusk
Half
Hay
Juvenile
Pitching
Time Me Father
Time Busy Me
Barn
Behind
Year
Cut
Followed
Parents
Mitt
Rule
Tractor
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When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.
Bob Feller / Baseball Player
Jobs
Real
Team
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