Top 54 Feller Quotes

#1. I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

John Wayne

Feller Quotes #19203
#2. Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #28795
#3. I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #48909
#4. Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #66428
#5. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather

Feller Quotes #167932
#6. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #207585
#7. I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #225605
#8. 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

Feller Quotes #254548
#9. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #260019
#10. Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.

Colleen Houck

Feller Quotes #265395
#11. Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott

Feller Quotes #266044
#12. My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Satchel Paige

Feller Quotes #298764
#13. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #317616
#14. 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

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#15. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #509343
#16. If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

Kin Hubbard

Feller Quotes #555531
#17. 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.

Bob Feller

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#18. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #570590
#19. Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

Amitav Ghosh

Feller Quotes #605272
#20. Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.

Paul Halmos

Feller Quotes #628882
#21. Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Feller Quotes #671307
#22. (Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

Walter Johnson

Feller Quotes #762439
#23. Is this your feller?"
"No, not really," I say, and Peter throws his arm around my shoulder and says, "Yes, sir. I'm her feller

Jenny Han

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#24. 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

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#25. 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

Feller Quotes #850207
#26. Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #901347
#27. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #955070
#28. 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

Feller Quotes #962474
#29. Whenever I'm thinkin' my life is miserable, I remember him, and tell myself, 'Well, Wayne. At least you ain't a broke, dickless feller what can't even pick his own nose properly.' And I feels better.

Brandon Sanderson

Feller Quotes #965256
#30. It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense
ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Tamora Pierce

Feller Quotes #1006422
#31. It is a common fallacy to believe that the law of large numbers acts as a force endowed with memory seeking to return to the original state, and many wrong conclusions have been drawn from this assumption.

William Feller

Feller Quotes #1028238
#32. Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing!

Mercedes Lackey

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

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1076583
#34. Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1087523
#35. A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Kin Hubbard

Feller Quotes #1119010
#36. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1147469
#37. Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1174297
#38. Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1182300
#39. Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

Damien Hirst

Feller Quotes #1187919
#40. Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller

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#41. This cognitive illusion was first noted in 1968 by the mathematician William Feller in his classic textbook on probability: "To the untrained eye, randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster."33 Here are a few examples of the cluster illusion. The

Steven Pinker

Feller Quotes #1234103
#42. I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Bob Feller

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#43. When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Mark Twain

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#44. 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

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

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1471335
#46. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1534870
#47. I'm an auto-didact; I taught myself what that means.

Geoffrey Feller

Feller Quotes #1541018
#48. If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Kin Hubbard

Feller Quotes #1579587
#49. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1579983
#50. Surprisin' a li'l ol' five foot tumble would kill a healthy feller like Charley," opined Barstow.
"Well, Jim Ed, we have to remember that that hemp neckerchief he was a-wearin' at the time, had ten, twelve inches, maybe less, slack than that to it.

D.V. Pyle

Feller Quotes #1688188
#51. 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

Feller Quotes #1740738
#52. 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.

Bob Feller

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#53. 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.

Bob Feller

Feller Quotes #1793001
#54. Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,

Bob Feller

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