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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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