Thomas Hauser Quotes

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

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

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

It's naive of anyone to think there is no corruption in football because it's everywhere.

Boxing has a problem - a big one. Think of it as a monster that's hiding under the bed. Eventually, the monster is going to come out and take a big chunk out of the sport. Fighters, trainers, managers, promoters, even government regulators can legally bet on fights. They can also bet on fights they're involved with.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

I don't even know what it means to fix a matchI, wouldn't know where to start.

We have to show zero tolerance on match and frame-fixing. There is no other option than a life ban.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

I have never had and will never have anything to do with manipulating match results.

I have never seen or heard anything to do with match-fixing in my time.

There's a lot of politics in boxing and it's destroying the game.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

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.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

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

The main thing is the ‘rule of corruption’: helping the horse both to race and also to get a mouthful of hay. It’s what all civil servants are secretly thinking. Our expectations for our civil servants are far too high, far too grandiose. The pressure is more than their flesh-and-blood bodies can stand.