Vida Blue Quotes

United States, Baseball Player
July 28, 1949

Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. (born July 28, 1949) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 17-year career, he pitched for the Oakland Athletics (1969–77), San Francisco Giants (1978–81; 1985–86), and Kansas City Royals (1982–83). He won the American League Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award in 1971.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Vida Blue
- Men
- Weird
- Baseball
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

Vida Blue
- Good
- Game
- Sometimes

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Vida Blue
- Man
- Woman
- Child
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Vida Blue
- Kids
- Nice
- Myself
Sure, it's nice to win. But there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose. . . . I don't love baseball, I like it. And to me, baseball means money, and that's all I care about.

Vida Blue
- Important
- Money
- Nice
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

Vida Blue
- Baseball
- Stomach
- Charlie
Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Vida Blue
- Men
- Man
- Catfish Hunter
I just pick it up and throw it. He hit it. They scored. We didn't. That's it. It's over. It's history. OK?.

Vida Blue
- History
- Pickup
- Scored

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Vida Blue
- Talent
- Teach
- God-given