Bob Feller

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”