Quotes About Media

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

You should want to fight the biggest fights you can and so you could maximize your stature in the sport, on the front pages of the newspapers, and your pocket book.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century, and not everything is life or death.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Social Media begins with a story - your story.