Damon Hill Quotes

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.

It is, because you've got a nice picture, you want to put it up, and then you're like, 'Do I want this to go out in the press? Do I want them to run it and make a story surrounding that picture?' That's what I have to think of all the time.

I haven't talked to the press much. That's why I've gotten kind of a bad reputation. They look at me and think I don't give a damn. But I'm not comfortable with the attention.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

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.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

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.

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

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.

I would want like Leonardo Dicaprio's dirt, because he doesn't have any out there. We never see any bad press about him.

The media has had its fun with me.

I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.