Vida Blue Quotes

• Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  Vida Blue

  Games, Lucky, Sometimes

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• 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

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• 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

  Baseball, Men, Genuine Person

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• 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

  Baseball, Nice, Kids

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• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Boys, Stomach

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• I think I have 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

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• 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

  Men, Balls, Talent

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• 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

  Love, Baseball, Nice

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