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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

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 don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong.