Bob feller

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.

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.

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

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.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

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

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

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.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

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