Bob Feller Quotes

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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, Opportunity, Games

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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

Morning, Trying, Roosters

"Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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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

Hero, Home, Gun

"Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

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

Bob Feller

Honesty, Important

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

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

Bob Feller

Sports, Baseball, Yankees

Bob Feller (1947). “Strikeout Story”

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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

War, Europe, People

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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

Reading, Trying, Events

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

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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

Hero, Names, Soldier

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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

Jobs, Real, Team

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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

Teamwork, Baseball, Men

"Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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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, Running, Country

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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

Bob Feller

Earth

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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

Sports, Believe, Intelligent

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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

Bob Feller

Baseball, Fun, League

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

Bob Feller

Country, Needs, Should

"Feller Proud to Serve in 'Time of Need'", www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

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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

Hero, Home, Thinking

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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

Country, War, Home

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

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

Bob Feller

Blessed, Blessed Life, Forever

"Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Feller Dies at 92", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2010.

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I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Feller

Pitching

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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

Sports, Nice, Good Day

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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, Team, Player

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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.

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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, Father, Thinking

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

Bob Feller

Sports, Player, Saws

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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.

Bob Feller

Gun, Russia, Class

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

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Born: November 3, 1918
Died: December 15, 2010
Occupation: Baseball player
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