The Miz Quotes

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

I've had to deal with terrible things being said about me.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

As I look back on it I am very ashamed of my vote on the McCarran Act. [He supported it.] I do have some excuses and alibis, though in retrospect they are not very good ones.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Decree of Self-Reproach

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

With my upbringing and where I grew up, people slagged people. If you slagged them, they'd slag you back... I know it pales in comparison to genuine issues that people have got, but I've had people slagging my stuff off on my blog and my website for years.

The only tweets I feel bad about are the fat-chick ones.

I get it, okay? I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be giving Jake Paul a platform.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

I love some of the most hateful tweets. I think they're very funny. In the negative attacks on me, there are frequently some real displays of humor. I want to reply, but I won't, because there are all sorts of other people making serious points that I care about, and I don't want them to be discouraged.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

Social media lacks insight, common sense, and emotion. Understand that while it's easy to condemn celebrities on social media, people should also think of repercussions their insensitive remarks can make on the celebrities' family.

Twitter can get you into trouble.

Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly.

I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.