La'Porsha Renae Quotes

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

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

I won't do any print interviews anymore. No matter what I say, it gets distorted.

Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

That's what media do. They make you out to be a monster.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.