Wanderlei Silva Quotes

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

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

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

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.

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.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

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

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Getting an advantage at the expense of somebody else—that really is what graft is.

The first time I raised the issue [of rigged weapons tests], my job was eliminated.

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