Pete Rozelle Quotes

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

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.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

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

It was my job to get the skeletons out of the closet and into the press—which I did.

There are two things that you should never do in front of the TV cameras. You should not make love and you should not make peace.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

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.

I would want like Leonardo Dicaprio's dirt, because he doesn't have any out there. We never see any bad press about him.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

I get along fine with the press.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

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

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.