Ander Herrera Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.

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.

In every sport you get cheats.

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

Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game.

I love cricket and am the last person who would get involved in something like spot-fixing. Anyone who knows me will think twice before coming to me with such an offer. Because I don't even listen to the captain before I play a match. I wouldn't agree to do it even for Rs 100 crore.

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.

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

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

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.

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.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

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

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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

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

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.