9 Quotes & Sayings By Bob Feller

Bob Feller was born in 1918 in Westfield, Ohio. He played minor league baseball for a few years before being recruited by legendary scout Joe Tinker. He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1939 and played there until the early 1950s. In his 15-year career, Feller won a record thirty-nine games three times each and led the American League in earned run average twice Read more

He won the World Series with the Indians in 1948 and 1954. Feller was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1960, and his number 34 was retired by the Indians.

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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. Bob Feller
2
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
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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. Bob Feller
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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. Bob Feller
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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. Bob Feller
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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. Bob Feller
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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
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I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. Bob Feller