You 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 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.
More Bob Feller Quotes
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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.
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
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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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There 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.
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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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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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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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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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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.
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Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
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Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
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I just reared back and let them go.
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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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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 would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
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