Lou Holtz Quotes

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

The money is given in these state judges elections by the very people who will appear before these judges. Now that can’t be a good system.

Toshiba was able to purchase access to those who were writing the legislation. They won, but what they did was very offensive.

I have never seen such lobbying before as we have had in the last few weeks and such crookedness and complicity among members [of congress].

Bribes and special deals were offered to members to say yes.

Abramoff did not own me, but we did engage in the culture of corruption together.

The endless money chase has given the appearance of corrupting government.

Deciding whether a contribution is corrupt is difficult without knowing the motives of the donor.

I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

I got some cash from agents. I've talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.

We did not pay for favors.

Betting by insiders has a corrosive effect. It breeds suspicion, adds to the appearance of corruption, invites more corruption, and, in a sport like boxing, puts lives at risk.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.