Harry Anderson Quotes

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.

I've made it very clear to you all that I will never again fight for this promotion, the U.F. Circus. Fixed fights, and I can prove it!

In every sport you get cheats.

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.

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

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

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

I had to cheat, steal, beg, borrow and lie….

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

I've been a big blagger all my life.

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

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.

With commerce comes fraud.

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

I learnt the game as a kid hustling car dealers for cash.

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud.

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

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

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

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