Memphis Depay Quotes

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.

I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

The patriots … complain that our government is cold toward them, as if ashamed to own them.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

Islam has a negative outlook on it around the world based on what the media tries to show. They not showing the peace.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That's an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes. I try to be strong about it and assure myself that only my close friends and family can really pass judgement on me personally, but it's impossible to not let it get to you.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.