Top 26 Quotes by Bob Feller

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

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

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.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

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

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.