Dwyane Wade Quotes

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

Our adversaries think they can gain a point, if they could force me to openly deny this charge. For this reason, it must not publicly appear that I am paying any attention to the charge.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

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

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

You will find that in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

I'm a great professional. What's been said about me going out a lot at night is a lie.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

The absent are easily refuted.