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Commissioner Of Baseball Inspirational Quotes (54)

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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
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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My open mindedness is a product of where I came from. When you work in labor relations for a long part of your career you have to embrace the idea that an exchange of ideas can produce creative solutions.
Rob Manfred
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I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.
Bud Selig
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.
Bud Selig
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
Bud Selig
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I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.
Rob Manfred
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I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is what I aspire to, everything we're trying to do is about that, and I hope I have enough time and enough help to get that done.
Rob Manfred
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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