Bob Feller Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Bob Feller quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American athlete who passed away on 15 December, 2010.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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'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.”
“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.”
“Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.”
“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.”
“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.”
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