Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
BOB FELLERBaseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
BOB FELLERBaseball 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 FELLERI would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
BOB FELLERI 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 FELLERMy 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 FELLERSympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
BOB FELLERYou 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.
BOB FELLERThe 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 FELLERHow 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 FELLERNowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
BOB FELLERThere was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America’s factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
BOB FELLERYankee 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 FELLERNobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
BOB FELLERI just reared back and let them go.
BOB FELLERI don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
BOB FELLEREvery 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