Micah Richards Quotes

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

Twitter is awesome to share news with fans, but I would never choose to only have social media and put everything in my life on display.

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

Social media really makes it tricky for people sometimes because you go, 'Oh, it's awesome. I'm gonna play this character. I'm going to do this really weird thing on camera,' and then you go back and read all your tweets and go, 'Mmm, well, I guess they didn't like that so much.'

If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

Overall, Twitter has been a great tool for myself and my family as far as promoting our charity and the events we do and really just kind of interacting with our fans. But it can be in the negative form, and guys have to be careful.

Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

There is a certain line that I draw for myself, when it comes to what to post and what not to on social media.

I feel like every time I tweeted something that was a little opinionated, or every time I posted something on Tumblr that seemed a little private, it's all of a sudden making news relationship-wise.

As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos.

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

You need to be aware of what you're putting on social media and what you're talking about.

Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.

Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world.

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.