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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.

Bob Feller

I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Color Sports Thinking
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
BOB FELLER

Morning Rooster Trying
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Hair Packing Sports Trouble
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

Baseball Inches Insufficient Sports War
I just reared back and let them go.
BOB FELLER

Let Pitching Reared
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

Country Delinquency Followed Time Year
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

Balls Heaven Sports
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.
BOB FELLER

Business Golf Heart Laugh 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.
BOB FELLER

Better Differences Simple Sports
Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
BOB FELLER

Blessed Blessed Life Forever
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

Country Down Old Buildings
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Sports Yankees
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.
BOB FELLER

Afternoon Milion Performance
Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
BOB FELLER

Pitching Sympathy Yankees
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.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Games Opportunity
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

Believe Intelligent Sports

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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