David Millar Quotes

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.

I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

In every sport you get cheats.

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.

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

Misdeeds of a few players and certain people cannot and should not bring bad name to hundreds of players who participated in the I.P.L. with full honesty. The reputation of the I.P.L. cannot be tarnished by a few greedy individuals.

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.

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.

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

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

The diplomat holds all acts honorable which bring him success, all things are righteous which serve his ends. If cheating is necessary, he will cheat; if lying is useful, he will lie; if bribery helps, he will bribe; if murder serves, he will order murder; if burglary, seduction, arson or forgery brings success nearer, all and each of these will be done.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is 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.

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.

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.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

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

I feel like, there's no fair in fighting: you do whatever it takes to win. Obviously, sometimes I cheat to win, but it's not illegal.

Everyone cheats.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.