Selig Quotes

#1. The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

Paul Pearsall

#2. Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

Zig Ziglar

#3. If we remember that the German word for holy (selig) is the root of our word silly, we may be forced to make some pertinent connections.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Denzel Washington

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

Fay Vincent

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

Denzel Washington

#9. 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

#10. Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Bill Johnson

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

Bud Selig

#12. I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.

Lori Lansens

#13. 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

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

Bud Selig

#15. 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

#16. If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

David C. Lindberg

#17. 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

#18. Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

Gore Vidal

#19. 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

#20. I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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

Bud Selig

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

Bud Selig

#23. 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

#24. There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

Patricia Highsmith

#25. Being single is not a death sentence.

Philip Siegel

#26. Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Garrison Keillor

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Safe. Right beside mine, right where it belongs. You're not lost, little bird, and you won't be.

Shelly Crane

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

Bud Selig

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

Bud Selig

#32. When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

George Herbert

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

Bud Selig