Quotes from Bob Feller

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

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.

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.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

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.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

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.