Bud Selig Quotes

#1. I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Robin Yount

#2. You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.

David Letterman

#3. There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything

Denzel Washington

#4. This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

Fay Vincent

#5. There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denzel Washington

#6. As early as 1999, Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. ("Bud") Selig had taken to calling the Oakland A's success "an aberration," but that was less an explanation than an excuse not to grapple with the question: how'd they do it? What was their secret?

Michael Lewis

#7. You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Bud Selig

#8. The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Bud Selig

#9. Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

Bud Selig

#10. The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

Bud Selig

#11. I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

Bud Selig

#12. How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

Bud Selig

#13. Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

Bud Selig

#14. That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. Business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

Bud Selig

#18. Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

Bud Selig

#19. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

Bud Selig

#20. I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

Bud Selig

#22. Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

Willie McCovey

#23. There stood Dan alone, with a ninja mask pulled over his face. Fifteen hissing bottle rockets were pointed right them.
"Screaming bottle of death-jutsu!" Dan yelled.

Clifford Riley

#24. The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.

Serena Williams

#25. The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

Bud Selig

#26. I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Bud Selig

#27. A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Stewart Brand

#28. Hard work is the formula for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.

Bud Selig