Peter Schmeichel Quotes

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

Every organization has men and women who will be sure that the news gets out when it is good news. The problem is with the bad news. That is the challenge of democracy

I believe, with the media, you must answer every question in some way. And in very, very, touchy situations, we must answer every question again and again.

My dad doesn't give me any advice about how to handle publicity.

I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

The best coaches have strong charisma to motivate the whole team while managing the relationship with the media, which can be tense.

When you become the manager of a leading club, there are so many situations you have to cope with. You have to deal with the people in charge of the club, the players, the media, the expectation... you have to deal with the whole environment around the club, and that is something you can find difficult.

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about the club he was informed, even if he couldn't print some things. Those days are long gone.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.