Bob Feller

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.

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.

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

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.

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.