Bob Feller Quotes (19 Quotes)

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.

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

I'm not PC, ... My wife is PC, but I am not.

It's really nice to be competitive in this tournament. The kids came out here with the attitude that they could win it. It's been a long time since they've had that.

Buck O'Neil deserves to be in the Hall. Not just as a player, but as a human being and as a person that promotes baseball all over the world.

Those games drew a lot of people the fans loved every minute of it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

He kept harping about 'What rules don't they know' And I said, 'The entire rule book is something that they just don't know, that they should know.' He got a little testy about it and he said, 'If you don't like it, hang up' -- which I did.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

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.

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

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