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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

  

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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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• What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

  

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• I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

  

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• I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
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• You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Trying
  • Light
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• See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Trying
  • Reason

• 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