Thomas Hauser Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

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

For the record, I've never taken a bung in my life. I might have enjoyed a meal or a bottle of wine on an agent or two but that is it. I was earning £1.5m a year, so I didn't need a little bit extra from an agent. It would have been madness.

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

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

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

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

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

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.

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor.

Tennis is a big sport when it comes to betting. Obviously, we as a sport try incredibly hard to keep it clean, and I think we do a very good job with that.

There is nothing more disgraceful for any sportsperson than to be accused of murky stuff like match-fixing or spot-fixing.

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.

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

The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.

I can tolerate anything but corruption and nepotism.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.