Bob Feller Quotes

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Bob Feller

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• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

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• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
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• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
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• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

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• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

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• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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  • Crush
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• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
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• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

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• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

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• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

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• If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

  

  David Suzuki
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• I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Up
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• Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

  

  Dr. Seuss
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• To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Men
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• Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Trying

• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Trying
  • Morning
  • Fastball