Kevin Pietersen Quotes

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

Talking to the press is not always good.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

In politics, you don’t have to love the press; you don’t even have to like the press, but you sure as hell have to feed the press.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

My dad doesn't give me any advice about how to handle publicity.

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.