When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
God knows I'm a good guy, I'm known in the industry as a good guy. I'm not known to be a foul, evil dude that you've got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.
When they say I'm a bad teammate and that I got a coach fired, that irritates the hell out of me. The biggest thing for me is to always have respect for my teammates. And then the whole Westphal thing - the man got himself fired. He was losing before I got here.
The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.
I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.
I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.
I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'
I know how loyal I was to Coach Blatt, and the people that know me understand that. I have no control over what people think.
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
I think it is a blessing to be known by the name of your character. How many characters can we count on our fingertips? Not many. To be one of them is a big achievement.
I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed because I did not want a script out there with my name on it that might be completely dysfunctional.
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
I'm straight and always have been. When our family gets together, we joke about it or throw our hands up in desperation because there is very little we can do. If we make a big fuss about correcting these rumors, it just creates more attention and turns the whole thing into a soap opera.
I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.
When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".
I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.
I cannot lie: as good as it feels to get my deserved props, the best part of reading social media after I meet folks is reading, 'Mike was a nice guy.'
My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word 'celebrity' attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.
The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
I don't give a damn about my record.
