I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Bob FellerI'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 FellerTrying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
Bob FellerWhere the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob FellerWhen you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.
Bob Feller