Chris Wilder Quotes

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

My mates will tell me they saw me in the newspaper linked to this club and that club, but to be honest it goes in one ear and out the other.

People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

All these years, people have spoken good and bad things about me, but I always end up being discussed.

Word can spread quickly around the international circuit if a player is perceived to have a fault, particularly if it is against short bowling.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

I'm used to people talking about me.

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!