Bob Feller Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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, Opportunity, Games

• I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Yankees

  Bob Feller (1947). “Strikeout Story”

• 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

  Baseball, Running, Country

• I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Feller was phenom, war hero". Press conference, www.espn.com. November 19, 2003.

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, War

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  Bob Feller

  Sports, Baseball, Hair

• 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 Feller

  Teamwork, Baseball, Men

  "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

• Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Fun, League

• 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

  Baseball, Father, Thinking

• As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Team, Player

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