Bob Feller Quotes
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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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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.
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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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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These guys are pretty resilient. They don't hang their heads too long, which is really good. I really like that about them.
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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.
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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.
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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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I said some of the boys from the Caribbean area don't know the rules quite so well.
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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.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
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Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.
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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
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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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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.
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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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Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
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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.
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It's really nice to be competitive in this tournament. The kids came out here with the attitude that they could win it. It's been a long time since they've had that.