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Bob Feller, an American professional baseball player, was born on November 3, 1918, and passed away on December 15, 2010. He is considered one of the greatest pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball, renowned for his exceptional pitching skills and remarkable career achievements.

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“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.”

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“I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.”

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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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“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.”

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“I just reared back and let them go.”

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“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.”

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“When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. 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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“You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.”

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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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“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.”

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“Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.”

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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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“Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.”

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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.”

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“Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.”

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

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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

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“Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.”

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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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“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.”

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“Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.”

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“Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.”

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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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About the Author

Born: November 3, 1918
Died: December 15, 2010
Known for: Baseball player
Quotes: 33

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