Jimi Manuwa 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.

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.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

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.

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

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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

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

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

I cannot accept fraud.

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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

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

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

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.