Alex Scott Quotes

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

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 went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

There is no team in the world that doesn't tamper with the ball.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

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!

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

In every sport you get cheats.