Bud Selig Quotations | Page 3

It's the same information the Blue Ribbon Committee has worked off of and the players' association has, everybody has. It's very disappointing and just plain wrong. It's one thing to be wrong and it's another thing to know when you do it that you're wrong and you just go ahead and do it anyway. I find that hard to believe.

I told you so. You say it for me.

It's all in place. It's something we have to look at next year.

The Oakland club is in the midst of trying to get a stadium built in their area. We're clearly not going to expand. Frankly, there are people who think we've expanded too much. I hope for at least the time being that we have status quo.

It's something I'd rather not discuss right now.

As a college kid, walking down the streets of Madison, how could I have ever dreamed I'd end up being the ninth commissioner of baseball,

There isn't a cloud within 800 miles of here,

There's been no change. I'm very hopeful. We need to get it done.

It's exceeded in intensity, in interest, in just every way that you can ---- criteria that you can use to judge something, it has been really successful.

It sends the wrong message to every one of our constituents.

We have to do it right. I can't let any other factors enter into it. Whatever is to be done has to be done very thoroughly and right.

We changed the game more than any decade in the history of the sport and Sandy was in the middle of all of that.

I told our people, 'No more 10 p.m. starts,' ... That's the end of it.

This was a day many people never thought would happen, ... And there were a lot of moments that there was a lot of justification for that.

It made my day. (Garner) had some tough times (in Milwaukee), but he's done very well and he's a terrific baseball man, no question about it. I had a chance to visit with both Phil and Cecil, and it's always a pleasure.

It should prove at least to everybody that we weren't kidding, ... I don't care who you are. You're out for 10 days.

It's going to be a very tense situation, I think, for all parties, ... But he's entitled to come back. And if he wants to come back, and I guess he does, he'll be back. And whatever the reaction is going to be, whether it's in Camden Yards or around the American League, is something he's going to have to live with.

There will be an owner very shortly, ... I don't think anybody is being penalized.

This is their policy, ... This is criteria they use in April and May. When I told Drayton that, he was fine with it.

I am pleased that Nippon Professional Baseball and its players' association have agreed to participate in the first ever World Baseball Classic, ... Japanese players are among the best in the world and their participation in this event is important to the global growth of the sport.

I believe if we had done it earlier, there would be no question about that. But I don't know the answer today.

I don't want to embarrass him. We've played trivia for a long time. He's good, but... That's all I'll say.

I can't think of an analogous situation, ... A player goes out on the field, tosses cameramen around - not one, not twice, but three times - unprovoked by these people, by his own admission. To me, that is just absolutely unacceptable.

I don't think that's true at all. There's no facts to support that and we're doing everything we can. We've taken care of the present future. Senator Mitchell has complete autonomy to go do whatever he has to do, wherever he has to go. In the meantime our minor league program is in its sixth year.

He really looks good, doesn't he? He's really throwing the ball well.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Amphetamines have been around for a long, long time.

All these people have spent an enormous amount of time, money, effort. And they certainly deserve one interview. I've enjoyed it. I've done five groups so far. I have three to go, and I'm trying to do those as quickly as possible.