Leigh Steinberg Quotes

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

The public's not stupid.

You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

The real crime rate and peoples perceptions are two different things.

Indians should not drink whiskey. It was not made for them, but for the white people who alone know how to use it. That is the cause of all the mischiefs which the Indians suffer.

Agitating the community and increasingly forcing itself upon our attention is the narcotic drug evil. I am convinced that part of the agitation on this subject is due to the sensationalism of certain types of newspapers and magazines. Lurid, sensational articles, intended to inflame the imagination of young people and to make the whole subject mysteriously and morbidly attractive, have led to the prevalence of a belief that the use of narcotic drugs is much more general than it really is.

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.