Thomas Hauser Quotes

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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

I understand this business. Sometimes there's a lot of corruption. It's boxing.

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.

I don't like the sleaziness, the corruption. I don't like the fraud that college basketball has become.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

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.

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

Unfortunately, the horse racing industry is often penetrated by organized crime.