“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, and that’s the way baseball is.” ~ Bob Feller November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010

“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 November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010

“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 November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010

“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 November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010

“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 November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010