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"All right, I'll say it. I told the owners not long ago that if there was one mistake I've made as commissioner, it was that I should've let a couple teams go bankrupt." - Sports Illustrated, July 8, 2002
"For example, Ford Frick. He was underestimated as a commissioner. He was so prophetic."
"I am a history buff. I do everything in the retrospect of history[sic]. I've studied the commissioner's office year by year, and I believe that I understand this office better than anyone on the face of the earth."
"I know the frustration of the owners. I grew up in this game, and the frustration level has never been so high. We're whipsawed. We can't make it the way things are. We need a systematic change. I don't see how anybody can come to any other conclusion. This game that you and I grew up with can't sustain itself. That's why I can't have this Scarlett O'Hara thing. I can't wait until tomorrow." - Sports Illustrated, July 8, 2002
"I'm just a masochist, I guess. The people whe have raised the most hell are those who don't know me. I just can't understand them getting personal."
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"Buddy connects with people. He is patient and willing to listen to other points of view. We've had lots of things to be really angry about, too. But there has not been one day --one day--of acrimony with Buddy. He is what he is." - Fred Wilpon
"Bud has no great intellectual capacity, but he just keeps at it, and he's really very good at politics. But that's also his liability, because he tends to agree with everybody he talks to. He wants to keep everybody happy."
- Fay Vincent
"From the day that Bud became involved in baseball, he divorced me and married baseball." - Donna Selig
"When my father is on vacation, he sits on the deck in Arizona and does the same thing he always does--talk on the the phone to the same people about baseball. His vocation and avocation are the same." - Wendy Selig-Prieb
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