Author: Bob Feller

Quotes

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

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'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

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 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.

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.

- 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

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

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

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