Stan Van Gundy Quotes

Take press coverage seriously but not personally

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

The media has had its fun with me.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

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

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.