Bob Feller Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Yankees

  Bob Feller (1947). “Strikeout Story”

• 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

  Sports, Believe, Intelligent

• 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

  Sports, Nice, Good Day

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

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Heaven, Balls

  "Bob Feller, 1918-2010: One of Baseball's Finest Pitchers". "People In America" with Barbara Klein and Steve Ember (VOA Special English), learningenglish.voanews.com. January 8, 2011.

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

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Feller was phenom, war hero". Press conference, www.espn.com. November 19, 2003.

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

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Player, Saws

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, War

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Hair

• 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

  Sports, Simple, Differences

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