Author: Bob Feller

Quotes

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'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

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

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

- Bob Feller

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

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

- Bob Feller

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

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

- Bob Feller

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.

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

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.

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.

- Bob Feller

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.

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.

- Bob Feller

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.

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.

- Bob Feller

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.

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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