I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
BOB FELLERYou 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.
More Bob Feller Quotes
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Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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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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I just reared back and let them go.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
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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.
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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o’clock.
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Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
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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.
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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.
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