Diego Forlan Quotes

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

I improve on misquotation.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.