Max Holloway Quotes

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Listen: women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie, guy.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

I would never lie to anyone about history.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

I will not be misquoted!

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.