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Favorite Bob Feller Quotes

1. "Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down." ~ Bob Feller
2. "Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important." ~ Bob Feller
3. "Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life." ~ Bob Feller
4. "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
5. "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." ~ Bob Feller
6. "I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either." ~ Bob Feller
7. "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
8. "Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player." ~ Bob Feller
9. "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." ~ Bob Feller
10. "I needed to join the Navy. 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." ~ Bob Feller
11. "I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need." ~ Bob Feller
12. "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
13. "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
14. "Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them." ~ Bob Feller
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. "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

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