Neil Robertson Quotes

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

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

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.

I don't like all the cheating that's going in mixed martial arts. I don't know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.

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

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

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.

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 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 want to swing the ball as much as we can. We try and get it to reverse, putting more sweat on one side and things like that. But we don't cheat.

Cheating during bouts has always existed.

In every sport you get cheats.

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

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

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

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

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.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.