It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.Vida Blue
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people. Dwight Gooden
People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer. Ken Venturi
Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund. Howie Carr
Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters. Amy Jo Martin
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them. Floyd Mayweather Jr