Bob Feller Quotes

- Athlete | November 3, 1918 - December 15, 2010

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

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

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

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

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HeavenSometimesCleanBallUp

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.

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TodaySimpleBetterToo MuchMore

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.

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

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LifeBlessedNobodyForeverLives

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.

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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.

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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.

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I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

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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.

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