Lance Armstrong Quotes

I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

As far as fan perception, it's probably worse than it should be. I think it's getting better, but I think I still get perceived based on the things I did earlier in my career.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.

I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

You should really get some quotes about our show. Noah loves when people talk about him. Negatively or positively.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

You got to do well at your craft ultimately, especially if you know that people are observing you and watching you and you don't want to get out there and produce subpar work. Because that's how people look at it. They don't just look at you as an athlete, they look at it as o you're an athlete and you're a Christian, what's happening now?

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.