Bob Feller Quotes

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

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.

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

And so that these young men, soldiers and seamen alike, may ever fiercer be and impetuous when they do battle with the enemy, so shall they be given a barrel or two of beer.

My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.

No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

The best time of being a Marine was Afghanistan. There will never be a time when I'm sleeping in the dirt and I haven't showered in four months and I'm with 50 of the people that I'll be the closest with ever.

Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought he was gonna die. And he wrote a letter to my grandmother and their newborn son, thinking he wasn't gonna come home.

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

In the Marine Corps there is no individual effort, we're all a big team.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

No matter what your passion is, you really can find it within the Army. The opportunities really are endless and the sky is not the limit.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.