Nicolas Anelka Quotes

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

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

Actors should never give interviews.

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

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

I get along fine with the press.

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'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

Talking to the press is not always good.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

Every time I talk to the press, I put my foot in my mouth.

I do not speak very often to the press. I just have it in my head. I do my talking out there on the field, which is the most important thing.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

As a footballer, it can be enjoyable to do a proper interview where you trust the journalist to reproduce your thoughts.

I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

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

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.