Selig Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. — Lynn Cullen

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character. — Linus Roache

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

Baseball was rooted not just in the past but in the culture of the country; it was celebrated in the nation's literature and songs. When a poor American boy dreamed of escaping his grim life, his fantasy probably involved becoming a professional baseball player. It was not so much the national sport as the binding national myth. — David Halberstam

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

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

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

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. — Bud Selig

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. — Bud Selig

And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization. — Terence McKenna

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

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well. — Victoria Principal

You must forgive yourself, you know, for not knowing any better than you did at the time that you make something so. If you can do this much, you can release yourself from a magnitude of contention that you have created against the self. If you decide, right now, that every choice that you have ever made was born in awareness that you held at the moment that choice was made, you can be understanding of the way that you operated and when. If you knew now what you knew then, you may well have done differently, but you cannot — Paul Selig

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

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling. — Norman Maclean

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

I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them. — Conor Grennan

I can scare myself like a pro. — Imogen Poots

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

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

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

There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything — Denzel Washington

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important. — Don Rickles

Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness. — Frederick Lenz

The least step forward in the domain of free thought and individual life has been achieved in all ages to the accompaniment of physical and intellectual tortures: and not only the mere step forward, no! but every form of movement and change has rendered necessary innumerable martyrs, throughout the entire course of thousands of years which sought their paths and laid down their foundation-stones, years, however, which we do not think of when we speak about "world-history," that ridiculously small division of mankind's existence. And even in this so-called world-history, which in the main is merely a great deal of noise about the latest novelties, there is no more important theme than the old, old tragedy of the martyrs who tried to move the mire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is. — Bud Selig

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low. — Bud Selig

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

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

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

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. — Fay Vincent

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

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

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated. — Glenda Bailey

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

A cup of tea would restore my normality.
[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay] — Douglas Adams

Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. — Suzanne Collins

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig — Denzel Washington