Quotes by Bob Feller

About Bob Feller:

Robert William Andrew Feller was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted only by a four-year sojourn in the Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average (ERA).
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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

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

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

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

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

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

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

Bob Feller

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

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

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

Bob Feller

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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameBob Feller
  • DescriptionMajor League Baseball player
  • BornNovember 3, 1918
  • DiedDecember 15, 2010
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBaseball Player