Misquoted Quotes

I invented the Internet.

In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

You feel hurt when you hear things which you are supposed to have said, which you wouldn't even have given a thought to.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.

Oh, I got totally misquoted saying I can dance like Rihanna. I can't! What I did say is that I enjoy a dance-off with my stepdaughter and her friends.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.