Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

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

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

I have never seen or heard anything to do with match-fixing in my time.

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

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

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.

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

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

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

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.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.